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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda

Explainer-What's in Chile's proposed new constitution?

A demonstrators holds up a book of the proposed new constitution as they gather to show support ahead of the upcoming September 4th referendum, where Chileans will vote to approve or reject the proposed new constitution, in Santiago, Chile July 28, 2022. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Chileans will vote in a little over a month on a new constitution that would bring the most sweeping changes to the country since the end of the Augusto Pinochet military dictatorship.

The proposed text focuses on social rights, the environment and gender parity, representing a sharp shift from the current 1980 constitution written during Pinochet's prime that focuses on private rights and free market principles.

A demonstrator holds placard reading 'I approve, new constitution' after gathering to show support for the new constitution ahead of the upcoming September 4th referendum, where Chileans will vote to approve or reject the proposed of new constitution, in Santiago, Chile July 28, 2022. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

The proposed new text was written by a 154-member body elected through a popular vote, the first time in Chile's history a constitution was drafted democratically.

The process started after violent protests against inequality rocked the world's top copper producer in 2019 and tarnished Chile's image as an oasis of stability in Latin America.

These are some of the changes the proposed 388-article constitution, completed in early July, would make.

POLITICAL SYSTEM AND LAWS

SOCIAL STATE

GENDER PARITY

INDIGENOUS RIGHTS

(Report by Natalia Ramos; Editing by Alexander Villegas, Christian Plumb and Alistair Bell)

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