Boric says Chile should draft new constitution if current proposal fails


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  • Saturday, 16 Jul 2022

FILE PHOTO: Chile's President Gabriel Boric poses with the final draft of the new constitution, before the next national referendum on September 4, when citizens will approve or reject it, in Santiago, Chile July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Pablo Sanhueza

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean President Gabriel Boric said on Friday that if a proposed new constitution is rejected in a referendum set for September, a new draft would have to be written up from scratch instead of modifying the current text.

In an interview with a local television channel, the leftist president said that since Chile's citizens voted to draft a new constitution in 2020, the process would have to be carried out again if the current proposal.

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