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Constitutional Council elections were held in Chile on 7 May 2023. [1] [2] Voting was compulsory, [3] and resulted in an electoral victory for right-wing parties, passing the threshold of a three-fifths majority of constitutional council members to freely draft a new constitution, removing the veto option from left-wing members.
The Constitutional Council in Chile was tasked to draft a new constitution in 2023, submitted to referendum on 17 December 2023. [1] The Constitutional Council was selected by the citizens in an election on 7 May 2023. [2] Councillor Beatriz Hevia was elected President of the Council by her peers on June 7.
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]
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -For the second time in just as many years, Chile has a new proposed constitutional rewrite after the congressional council in charge of drafting it approved the final document ...
Chileans, who in September of last year resoundingly rejected a proposed constitution that had been written by a left-leaning convention, will decide on Dec. 17 whether to accept the new document ...
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Elections took place 15 days after the councilmen took office, and the newly elected advisors were sworn in 60 days after their election. [17] In December 2012, a temporary article was added to the Constitution, suspending the election scheduled for December 21, 2012, and extending the mandate of the incumbent advisors to March 11, 2014.
Chile has written a new constitution that — if approved in a Sept. 4 plebiscite — will give extraordinary political powers to indigenous minorities. ... because 78% of voters approved writing ...