News of referendum

Chilean Congress agrees to restart Constitution rewrite process

13-12-2022 09:08 Council's members to draft new constitution will be elected in a mandatory vote in April 2023, and must be equal numbers of men and women.

CONSTITUTIONAL VOTE

Chile President Boric reshuffles Cabinet after referendum rout

08-09-2022 01:50 Chile President Gabriel Boric fires interior minister and removes one of his chief advisers in a sweeping cabinet shake-up, tacking to the political centre after voters overwhelmingly rejected a new constitution that his government had backed in a referendum.

Chile Constitution Vote

Chileans reject overhaul of dictatorship-era constitution

04-09-2022 22:46 The new ultra-progressive constitution proposed by Gabriel Boric’s government has been decisively rejected by the Chilean public this Sunday, in a compulsory vote to choose whether to replace the dictatorship-era constitution.

ABORTION RIGHTS

As United States undoes abortion rights, Chile works to enshrine them

27-06-2022 13:22 As the United States loses a five-decade-old right to abortion, Chile is gearing up to enshrine the same right in its constitution.

UNREST IN CHILE

Chilean leader worried about drop in support for new constitution

07-04-2022 21:07 Chilean government confirms citizens will vote in a mandatory referendum on September 4 to approve or reject the new constitution.

Bloomberg

Uruguay set to keep investor-friendly legal reforms in vote

28-03-2022 13:16 Uruguayans vote to uphold more than 100 legal changes introduced by President Luis Lacalle Pou in a referendum that could help his government implement more market-friendly reforms.

CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS

Mexico president says trials of predecessors still possible

02-08-2021 14:55 Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says predecessors could still face prosecution despite low turnout in a referendum on whether to investigate them for alleged corruption.

NEW CONSTITUTION

Work starts on Chile's first post-dictatorship constitution

04-07-2021 21:10 New 155-member body charged with writing a new constitution installed in Chile, but swearing-in ceremony overshadowed by protests.

NEW ERA IN CHILE

Piñera: Chile to begin writing its new constitution on July 4, says

21-06-2021 11:36 Chile's existing constitution dates from 1980, enacted at the height of Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 rule. Convention tasked with rewriting it will begin work on July 4.