Work starts on Chile’s first post-dictatorship constitution ...Middle East

SANTIAGO: Chile officially starts writing a new constitution Sunday to replace the one it inherited from the era of dictator Augusto Pinochet and is widely blamed for deep social inequalities that gave rise to deadly protests in 2019.The country’s biggest protests in 30 years of democracy won Chileans a referendum last October in which a majority voted for a new constitution to be drawn up by a body of elected members.This 155-member body, elected in May and called a “constitutional convention,“ will on Sunday officially start its work of crafting a new Magna Carta for a new Chile.It is a representative collection of Chileans — lawyers, teachers, a housewife, scientists, social workers, vets

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