Chile 2023 Plebiscite LIVE: more than 55% of Chileans rejected the new constitution

The option to reject a Constitution proposal conservative in nature plebiscite held this Sunday in Chile was 55.7% compared to 44.2% who were in favor.

With this result, the current text inherited from the military dictatorship (1973-1990) and which has been reformed several times in democracy will be maintained and will be closed at least during the presidency of Gabriel Boric (2022-2026) the constitutional debate, because the Government has already said that it will not promote a third constituent process.

18:10 p.m.

Rejection of Chile’s new constitution leads in plebiscite with more than 50% count

The spokesperson for the position “Against”Carolina Leitao, also spoke before the scrutiny concluded and stated that the result is a great shock for politics. “We want more agreements and fewer disputes” He pointed out about the pronouncement through the citizens’ ballot boxes.

17:52 pm

At 76.52% of tables scrutinized, more than 55% reject the new constitution

55.4% of Chileans are against the proposed new constitution and 44.5% are in favor of replacing the current constitution drafted during the Pinochet government.

17:40 p.m.

More than 55% of Chileans reject conservative Constitution, with 54% scrutinized

With more than 50% of the votes counted and a very marked trend, Chili rejected this Sunday by 55.1% a second proposal of new Constitution and decided to maintain the current text, inherited from the military dictatorship (1973-1990).

The option of approving the new text, drafted by a body in which the right and the extreme right had a majority, obtained 44.8% of the votes.

The conservative Independent Democratic Union (UDI) party, which supported the new document, was the first to come out to recognize the results and its leader, Javier Macaya, said that Chileans “They don’t want a constitutional change.”

17:08 pm

Chileans reject plebiscite for new constitution, with 27.8% of votes

The option of rejecting a conservative Constitution proposal in the plebiscite held this Sunday in Chile takes advantage with 54.6%, compared to the 45.3% that accumulates the option of approving the text, according to 27.8% of the votes counted.

The Electoral Service said on its website that with 7.9% of the tables counted, the option “against” prevailed with 54.3% of the votes while the alternative “in favor” he got 45.7%.

Sunday’s result would mark for now the closing of a four-year cycle and several popular elections since at the end of 2019 Chileans began a path of constitutional change in response to large social mobilizations.

4:51 p.m.

Polls close in Chile and vote counting begins on the new constitution proposal

The polls closed in Chili on Sunday and the counting began to find out if the 15 million Chileans who were summoned approved or rejected the new constitutional proposalconservative in nature, with which to replace the Magna Carta in force since the dictatorship.

16:01 p.m.

Gabriel Boric: “Beyond the result, the plebiscite strengthens our democracy”

The president of Chile, Gabriel Boricassured this Sunday that the plebiscite on the new Constitution proposal “strengthens” the democracy and said that, “regardless of which option wins,” Your Government will focus on the “people’s priorities”.

“Beyond any outcome, it strengthens our democracy. Chile has shown a strength that we do not have to take for granted, it has shown that we channel the problems we have in society institutionally and resolve them peacefully and trusting in the people.”indicated the president after voting in his native Punta Arenas, in the extreme south.

1:08 p.m.

Chile Plebiscite: Bachelet votes against and Piñera criticizes the Government

One of the earliest risers was the former socialist president Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010 and 2014-2018), who around 9:20 local time approached the Colegio Bicentenario de La Reina, in the Metropolitan region, where he assured journalists: “I prefer something bad to something terrible.”

The former conservative president presented himself along a completely different line Sebastian Piñera (2010-2014 and 2018-2022), who cast his vote at the Rafael Sotomayor school in Las Condes, one of the richest neighborhoods in the capital, and did not waste the opportunity to harshly criticize the Government.

“I hope that Chileans turn out to vote and thus we have the possibility of finally having a constitution approved in full democracy,” he claimed.

10:59am

Chileans choose between Pinochet’s Constitution or an even more conservative one

More than 15 million chileans They began voting this Sunday to ratify or not a new constitutional proposal to replace the Magna Carta in force since the dictatorship and after rejecting in 2022 a first radically opposed and progressive initiative.

The new text, written by a majority of constituents from the right and extreme right, is more conservative than the one it seeks to replace both morally and economically, since it would deepen the principles of the free market, reduce State intervention and could limit some rights, such as reproductive rights.