Conservatives dominate Chile’s constitutional assembly this time around
Last year the assembly was seen as too far left
The pendulum of Chilean politics has swung a long way in a short time. In October 2019 millions took to the streets to demand better education, health care and pensions. To quell the protest, politicians offered to rewrite the country’s constitution, adopted in 1980 under Augusto Pinochet, a military dictator. Left-wing activists won the most seats in a convention called in 2021 to draft the new charter. Later that year Chileans voted in Gabriel Boric, a left-wing former student leader, as president.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “In the swing”
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