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October 25, 2023

Will Chileans Be Able to Agree on a New Constitution?

For the second time in as many years, Chileans appear to be souring on the draft of a proposed new constitution for the country. // File Photo: Chilean Government.

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  • The committee tasked with drafting a new constitution for Chile approved a draft of the document this month that would enshrine right-wing provisions, including limits on the right to strike, restrictions on abortion and guarantees for the swift expulsion of undocumented migrants. More than half of Chileans say they will reject the charter in a referendum in December, according to a recent survey by pollster Cadem. Such a rejection would be the second defeat for a constitutional draft after Chileans last year voted down an earlier proposal that was criticized for being too progressive. Why are the committees tasked with writing a new constitution failing to adhere to what most Chileans want? What can the current committee do to win voters’ approval for a new constitution? How well is the constitutional rewriting process serving Chileans?

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Sergio Bitar, nonresident senior fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue and former Chilean minister of mining, education and public works: “The aspiration of most Chileans has been to have a new constitution to replace that of Pinochet, 50 years after the military coup. Will we be able to reach a broad agreement, or will polarization prevail? This is Chile’s dilemma, and this goal may fail for the third time. The first failure happened in 2017, when President Bachelet sent a draft new constitution to Congress but her successor, Sebastián Piñera froze the process. The second attempt was after the great social uprising of 2019. Given the risk of an institutional crisis…”

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