By 79 votes in favour, 65 against and two abstentions, the House Chamber rejected the constitutional reform that sought the creation of electoral districts abroad for the Constitutional Convention.
Because the minimum approval quorum of 93 favorable votes was not reached, the project was archived.
The proposal proposed that Chileans based abroad could participate as voters in the election of members of the Constitutional Convention.
In addition, it established three seats of conventional constituents for the representation of Chileans abroad, in addition to those established in Chapter XV of the Political Constitution of the Republic.
It was also proposed that persons who met the requirements set out in article 131 of the Constitution and who were registered in the provisional standard of voters who suffer abroad, which laid down Articles 31 and 32 of Law 18,556, could be candidates for constituent conventionals.
For the election of these Constituent Conventionals, it was intended to form a single district composed of all those registered in that standard.
Since the Chilean Network Awakened International had promoted this issue, arguing that the creation of an International District represented a “historical opportunity”.
