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    Chile - drafting new constitution

    https://news.yahoo.com/chile-embarks...022135229.html

    SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chileans began the long process of writing a new constitution on Monday following a landslide vote in favor of the project by citizens who want the unabashedly capitalist country's principles to enshrine greater equality in healthcare, pensions and education.

    In a referendum on Sunday, 78% of voters in the world´s top copper producer backed constitutional overhaul, a stinging rebuke of the constitution dating from the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

    The vote was a central demand of mass protests over inequality in late 2019.

    More than 7.5 million of 14.97 million eligible Chileans voted in the referendum, the electoral authority said, the largest turnout since Chile adopted voluntary voting in 2012.

    Four-fifths of voters said they wanted the new charter to be drafted by a specially elected body of citizens - made up of half women and half men - over a mixed convention of lawmakers and citizens, highlighting general mistrust in Chile's political class.

    The new constitution itself is still a long way from fruition, however.

    The 155-seat convention of citizens will be elected in April and have up to a year to agree to a draft text, with proposals approved by a two-thirds majority. Chileans will then vote again on whether they accept the text or want to revert to the previous constitution.

    We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!



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    Countdown to Venezuelafication.
    NeoReactionary. American High Tory.

    The counter-revolution will not be televised.

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    Nothing fails like success. Hyperinflation to the wealthiest country in the region in one generation. Now back to $#@!holedom.


    Also "unabashedly capitalist coutnry" LOL. Chile is roughly as capitalistic as Sweden. Pretty good relative to the $#@!holes around them but not exactly Galt's Gulch.

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    Isn't Chile the most capitalistic country in South America?
    "Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration is minding my own business."

    Calvin Coolidge

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pauls' Revere View Post
    https://news.yahoo.com/chile-embarks...022135229.html

    SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chileans began the long process of writing a new constitution on Monday following a landslide vote in favor of the project by citizens who want the unabashedly capitalist country's principles to enshrine greater equality in healthcare, pensions and education.

    In a referendum on Sunday, 78% of voters in the world´s top copper producer backed constitutional overhaul, a stinging rebuke of the constitution dating from the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

    The vote was a central demand of mass protests over inequality in late 2019.

    More than 7.5 million of 14.97 million eligible Chileans voted in the referendum, the electoral authority said, the largest turnout since Chile adopted voluntary voting in 2012.

    Four-fifths of voters said they wanted the new charter to be drafted by a specially elected body of citizens - made up of half women and half men - over a mixed convention of lawmakers and citizens, highlighting general mistrust in Chile's political class.

    The new constitution itself is still a long way from fruition, however.

    The 155-seat convention of citizens will be elected in April and have up to a year to agree to a draft text, with proposals approved by a two-thirds majority. Chileans will then vote again on whether they accept the text or want to revert to the previous constitution.

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    Quote Originally Posted by trey4sports View Post
    .....and the hell with the other 76 genders?
    ROFLMAO!

    We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Globalist View Post
    Isn't Chile the most capitalistic country in South America?
    Not for long.

    We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!

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