SANTIAGO, Jun 21 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – The Constitutional Convention, responsible for drafting a new Chilean constitution, will hold its first session on July 4, President Sebastian Pinera, announced yesterday.
Pinera signed yesterday, the decree calling for the inaugural session, to draft a new constitution, to replace the current one, which was written during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
The Chilean president said that, this “represents, without a doubt, a great opportunity to achieve these broad and solid agreements, which will give rise to a new constitution that will be recognised and respected by all Chileans.”
The convention must present a draft within nine to 12 months, and will then have another 60 days to hold a referendum, in which the public must accept or reject the document.
The call for a new constitution was ratified through a national referendum, in which 51 percent of the population, or more than 7.5 million people, cast their votes.– NNN-PRENSA LATINA
