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Weekly Report - 07 July 2022 (WR-22-27)
CHILE: Voters suffer buyer’s remorse over constitution
Chile has a shiny new constitution, just as 78% of voters asked for in the referendum in October 2020. Electoral surveys all suggest, however, that they no longer want a new constitution, or at least not the one that is on offer, and will reject it in a referendum on 4 September. There are various reasons for this. Disillusionment with the constitutional convention (CC) that drafted it is perhaps foremost among them. All of this poses a big problem for President Gabriel Boric, whose government has championed the new constitution and has no alternative.
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