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Chileans overwhelmingly reject new constitution

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Chileans on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected a new constitution that would have enshrined LGBTQ rights in an unprecedented way.

Upwards of 80 percent of Chileans in October 2020 voted in favor of changing the constitution. More than 60 percent of them rejected the new constitution in Sunday’s referendum.

Slightly more than 38 percent of Chileans voted to approve it. The need to change the current constitution, which is a legacy of Gen.

Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, arose after social unrest in 2019 that exposed long-standing standing inequalities in the South American country.

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