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Weekly Report - 12 April 2017 (WR-17-14)

CHILE: Bachelet moves again on constitutional reform

President Michelle Bachelet signed a bill last week launching the next phase of the process of overhauling the 1980 constitution (which dates back to the military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet, 1973-1990). Along with education and fiscal reform, this was one of Bachelet’s three chief electoral pledges in 2013. The bill has been criticised, however, by figures such as former president Sebastián Piñera (2006-2010) who last month launched his presidential candidacy for the centre-right opposition coalition Chile Vamos [WR-17-11] ahead of the November 2017 vote. It also comes as the unpopular Bachelet administration has faced renewed pressure to deliver on another campaign pledge – overhauling the public-private national pensions system, another relic of the Pinochet era.

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