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The state of suffrage in Chile since 1833: From 1833: Men over 25, if single, or 21, if married, able to read and write, and owning property or capital of a certain value fixed by law. (Art. 8 of the 1833 Constitution) The 1884 Election Law drops the ownership requirement for men and explicitly bans women from being registered. [29]
The election at the National Stadium in Santiago. 'Rechazo' campaign, 1 September 2022. According to the itinerary originally proposed for the constituent process, it was estimated that the plebiscite to approve or reject the text of the new Constitution would take place in September 2021, if the Constitutional Convention met its term of nine months and did not request the three-month ...
A constitutional referendum was held in Chile on 17 December 2023, [1] [2] to determine whether the public approved a new constitution drafted by an appointed committee of experts and amended by an elected Constitutional Council. [3] The new text of the constitution was approved by the Council on 30 October and put to a vote on 17 December. [4]
On the wooden benches of Santiago’s Estadio Nacional, university professor Luís Cifuentes spent long, empty days in the spring of 1973 trying to ignore the agonizing screams emanating from the ...
Chile's President Sebastian Pinera on Monday signed off on a referendum to be held on a new constitution, which he vowed would generate a "solid, compassionate and legitimate framework" that would ...
The proposed new constitution would replace the 1925 constitution, and was approved by over two-thirds of voters. [ 2 ] The referendum was controversial, as Chile was then being ruled by a military dictatorship, and it ensured that Augusto Pinochet would remain in power with a rule by decree until 1988, after which he was peacefully removed ...
Chapter VII (articles 251 to 278) establishes a bicameral National Congress of an asymmetric nature, with an indirectly elected Chamber of the Regions and a directly elected Congress of Deputies, establishing its duration — 4 years for both chambers —, the form of election of the members of them, their re-election limit —set at just one ...
Indigenous leaders who support the new constitution say its content is representative of the Chilean people’s will, because 78% of voters approved writing a new Constitution in 2020, and a 2021 ...