Chile’s Boric Worried About Drop in Support for New Constitution

  • Growing rejection to new charter is ‘wake-up call,’ he says
  • Constitutional Convention must submit draft by early July
Gabriel Boric gives his acceptance speech after winning the presidency in December.

Photographer: Cristobal Olivares/Bloomberg

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President Gabriel Boric, expressing concern about a recent drop in public support for Chile’s new constitution, called for broader agreements and for confronting doubts on the new charter head-on.

Recent poll data showing the population’s growing mistrust in the Constitutional Convention are a “wake-up call,” Boric told reporters on Tuesday while on official visit in Argentina. He added that he knows people who initially backed a new charter in the 2020 referendum and now have doubts about the process.