defeats, challenges and hopes. Interview with Tomás Hirsch
On Sunday 7 May, elections were held in Chile for the Constitutional Council, which will have to prepare a new draft Constitution, after the previous one, very advanced in many aspects, was rejected in the referendum of September 2022. The new draft constitution will be put to a referendum on 7 December this year.
The Republican Party, a far-right formation led by José Antonio Kast (who had been defeated by Gabriel Boric in the second round of the December 2021 presidential elections) won 35.5 percent of the vote and elected 23 of the 51 members of the Council. The traditional…
