Chileans to be called to vote September 4, if they approve or reject the draft new Constitution Observing with “concern” the apparent loss of support for the government, currently in preparation, according to the government’s foresight. The Constitutional Convention created ‘ex profeso’ to reform Magna Carta.
Considered a key point to turn the page in the wave of protests that began in Chile in October 2019, the text is still under discussion, but the Presidency General Secretariat has already approved the consultation for the date they used. The holding of presidential elections until the overthrow of Salvador Allende.
Currently working on practical voting issues, the Executive is a member of the Electoral Service (Servel). complete all work related to registration and advertising“Sunday 4 September 2022 has been set as the date of the plebiscite when the text of the new constitution should be ratified or rejected.”
Voting will be mandatory as provided for in the current Constitution, in which citizens will decide whether they support the text of the Convention. These components have the president in early July and a few days later to deliver the draft, Gabriel Boric, will formalize the date of the plebiscite by decree, According to the newspaper ‘El Mercurio’, it will be held on the corresponding first Sunday after 60 days.
However, the polls reflect a certain erosion in terms of citizen support for the Constitutional Convention and the draft they prepared accordingly. Boric himself described these polls as “alarming”, which he saw as a “wake-up call”.
During an official visit to Argentina, the President called: “look for the greatest possible diagonal and width”, such that the resulting Constitution is a “meeting point”. In this sense, he stressed that this was “one of the most important processes in Chile” and separated it from the current government, assuming that Magna Carta could mark decades to the country’s future.