Chile Rejected the Proposal for a New Constitution

Chile says "Rejection of the constitutional proposal of the Convention" with ease and with a historic participation.

With 99.92% of the tables scrutinised, the president of the organisation's board of directors, Andrés Tagle, maintained that the Rejection reached 61.87% and the Approval obtained 38.13%.

An unprecedented day for a momentous result. The Rejection was imposed on the Approval by a large amount, as the polls have anticipated since April and even more comfortably than what analysts predicted after the last week, marked by the massive closure of the Approval campaign among other milestones, which gave a boost to a somewhat weak sector campaign in the preceding weeks.

The country, with a historic participation, chose not to endorse the constitutional proposal drafted by the Convention. A period of uncertainty opens, without clarity about what will come, with the only certainty that the 388 articles written by the 154 conventional will not rule in the country.

President Gabriel Boric has already shed light on a path. He summoned the leaders of all the political parties and the presidents of the Senate and the House of Representatives for tomorrow in La Moneda to build an agreement on what is to come. In the previous days, contacts had already existed, and an idea of ​​a new convention was even glimpsed, with different rules from the previous one.

Participation itself became news that invigorated democracy: it is projected that it would be around 85% of the voter registry, more than 13 million people. Calmly, but massively, hundreds of thousands began to arrive at the polling stations this morning, perhaps driven by the geo referencing applied by the Electoral Service. Never in history had the premises been close to the electoral domicile. A step forward.

Although the analyses that will come later, in the week, perhaps after the political agreements on the future, will break down this change, during the day it was possible to observe protagonists absent from other electoral processes reappear at the polls, such as older adults and the rural vote.

The Rejection was imposed throughout Chile with a uniform distance of between 10 and 15 points, except in the Santiago and Valparaíso, where the distance was wide, but less.

Source: EMOL