Chaotic Chile Convention Defies Odds on New Charter, Experts Say
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Lawmakers attend a meeting of the Constitutional Convention at the former Chilean National Congress in Santiago, Chile, on Monday, April 11, 2022.
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After months of 18-hour days, radical proposals and growing public disillusionment, Chile’s Constitutional Convention has managed something that some deemed nearly impossible: a “reasonable” document that embraces the nation’s new fervor for social rights without undermining its famously free-market economy, according to experts questioned by Bloomberg.
The Constitutional Convention presented its draft charter Monday, and will now spend the next month fine tuning the wording.