- Chileans are set to vote on a new constitution, that seeks to bring the most sweeping changes in country since the end of dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet military.
- Proposed changes focus on social rights, gender parity and environment.
- It represents a huge shift from 1980 constitution, which was written during Pinochet’s prime.
- Current constitution of Chile focuses on private rights and free market principles.
- Proposed constitution or new text has been written by a 154-member body elected via a popular vote.
- This will be the first time in history of country, that a constitution was drafted democratically.
- Process for the new constitution was started in the aftermath of violent protests against inequality that surfaced in Chile in 2019.
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