Indigenous advocates reject Chile’s new draft constitution ahead of vote
Al Jazeera
Sunday’s referendum will be the second time in as many years that Chileans have voted for a revised constitution.
For more than a decade, architect Julio Ñanco Antilef has campaigned to rewrite Chile’s constitution, a relic from when General Augusto Pinochet ruled the country as a military dictator.
But now, as Chile prepares to vote on a new draft, Ñanco Antilef finds himself in a paradoxical position: hoping to keep the old version in place.
“It’s not that we are defending Pinochet’s constitution. It’s just that this proposal is worse,” he told Al Jazeera in a recent interview.
A member of the Democratic Revolution party, Ñanco Antilef was one of the few left-wing representatives to participate in the Constitutional Council that drafted the new version, which is set to go before voters on Sunday.
Rather, it was Chile’s far-right Republican Party that led the drafting process, holding 22 of the council’s 50 seats.
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