Chile’s Constitutional Assembly presented its final draft to President Gabriel Boric this week, exactly two months ahead of the September 4 exit referendum that will determine whether the text is adopted as the country’s new Constitution.
The proposal is 388-articles-long, one of the largest in the world, though from its very start it shows a marked contrast to the current dictatorship-era text. Article 1 argues that Chile is a “social and democratic state,” as well as “plurinational, intercultural, regional and ecological.”
According to the Assembly, the definition of the country as a “social state” comes in opposition...
