Chileans head to the polls on Sunday to vote on whether or not to accept a new constitution to replace the one in use since the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990).
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chileans head to the polls on Sunday to vote on whether or not to accept a new constitution to replace the one in use since the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship .
It would be an “asymmetric” congress with a more powerful chamber of deputies that would create laws and a body representing the regions that will only oversee certain relevant bills. The new constitution recognizes the rights of nature and animals and protects water sources — which are currently privately owned, often by big mining companies — as a human right.
The new constitution includes the right to “voluntary abortion,” although the exact specifics, such as the gestational time limit, would have to be set by congress. One of the most controversial new clauses, and one that is motivating many Chileans to reject the new proposition, would grant greater self-rule to Indigenous people and recognize their own courts, as long as they respect the constitution and international treaties. The supreme court would also retain supremacy over Indigenous courts.Chile’s population of 19 million currently faces a deficit of half a million homes that has been growing since 2015, according to the state pollster Casen.
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