Chile's President Boric to reform current charter after constitution fails
After voters in Chile rejected a progressive constitution that would have fundamentally changed the country, political leaders on Monday started working on finding a path forward to reform the current charter which dates back to the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
Rejection had been widely expected in Sunday's plebiscite, but the 24-point margin of victory for the rejection camp was a shocking repudiation of a document that was three years in the making and crafted by a constitutional convention.
What do Chileans want? We know what they don't want, they don't want this new proposed constitution, said Marta Lagos, head of MORI, a local polling company. We're now searching for what they do want.
The proposed document, which would have amounted to one of the world's most progressive constitutions, won a majority in only eight of the country's 346 communes.
The streets of Santiago were calm Monday and there were barely any protests, proving wrong predictions that those in the ..