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John Bartlett in Santiago

‘Dangerous for women’: warning as Chileans vote on new draft constitution

A copy of the Chilean constitution in front of La Moneda Presidential Palace in Santiago. Sunday’s vote comes after a previous draft was rejected by voters in a similar referendum last year.
A copy of the Chilean constitution in front of La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago. Sunday’s vote comes after a previous draft was rejected by voters in a similar referendum last year. Photograph: Pablo Vera/AFP/Getty Images

Activists and analysts in Chile have warned that swaths of the country’s population stand to lose out should a new draft constitution drawn up by conservative lawmakers be approved in a nationwide referendum on Sunday.

Chileans head to the polls caught between exhaustion and resentment in a compulsory vote to decide whether the 1980 constitution written during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, and since reformed, should be replaced.

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