Chile’s constitutional plebiscite began, a historic day in which millions of citizens will decide whether they want to start a process of reform of the country’s Constitution, dating back to the military civic dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). After some deferments of their own to the pandemic this Sunday, October 25, the just over 14,000,000 Chileans qualified according to the electoral roll will have the possibility, because this instance of participation is voluntary, to take a first step or perhaps the last, to determine whether or not they want to reform their Constitución.La possibility of this reform of the social outburst that began on October 18, 2019 , which unified multiple sectors of Chilean society into a claim of rules of social equality that the current magna letter does not contemplate.
With a strict protocol due to coronavirus to protect voters on Election Day, the Servel reported that voting stations will operate from 08:00 to 20:00 hours. while for those 60 years of age or older an exclusive schedule was set, which will govern from 14 to 17.It will also be mandatory to use hubs inside polling stations and it was suggested that voters wear their own pen to register the preference at the ballot box and also to sign the minutes, the AFP news agency reported. For this you will have to answer two big questions:
Do you or do you not want a new Constitution? Approval or Rejection
What kind of Body should the new Constitution draft? Joint Constitutional Convention or Constitutional Convention.
Jointly, it would be a Convention of 172 persons of whom half would be members of the Congress of the Republic who should resign from office and the other half representatives of citizenship. Meanwhile, the Constitutional would consist only of 155 representatives of citizenship elected directly by the People on 11 April 2021 in conjunction with regional elections. Supporters may identify themselves by passport or ID card and will exceptionally be allowed to vote with documents expired since November 2019, understanding that the completion of formalities is complicated by the pandemic.
At the time of voting, the voter must show his/her IDENTITY card, which should not be manipulated by the table vowel, place his/her document on the table and must remove the hub for no more than three seconds and, taking a distance of more than one meter from the voting station authorities, will be identified. If the votes are cast, the voter must show them folded and sealed, so that the chairman of the table reviews that the serial numbers correspond to the cards delivered.
