In a referendum, almost 62% voted against the progressive draft.
- Vanessa Buschschlüter
- BBC
The margin of the defeat is much larger than opinion polls had suggested.
Chile’s President Gabriel Boric, who had backed the new constitution, said he would work with Congress and civil society to come up with a “new constitutional process”.
“We have to listen to the voice of the people” who, he said, had clearly not been satisfied with the proposal put forward by the constitutional convention.
He said he…