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Chilean lawmakers reach agreement to start work on new constitution

FILE PHOTO: A general view of a polling station during the election for governors, mayors, councillors and constitutional assembly members to draft a new constitution that will replace Chile's charter, in Valparaiso, Chile, May 15, 2021. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

(This Dec. 12 story has been corrected to remove incorrect reference to the agreement being between the government and opposition lawmakers in the first paragraph)

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean lawmakers on Monday announced an agreement to begin drafting a new constitution, three months after a referendum overwhelmingly rejected a progressive first text to replace a dictatorship-era charter.

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