Chile roundly rejects woke constitution in national vote On September 4, Chileans had a referendum on whether to accept the leftist government's proposed new constitution: a 170-page document containing 388 articles, which would enshrine 100 rights including the right to: a "nutritionally complete" diet; "leisure"; "neurodiversity"; equality for "sexual and gender diversities and dissidences, both in the public and private spheres"; housing; sex parity in all public institutions; and to free education.
Every single one of the nation's 16 regions voted "no."
In the mandatory vote, approximately 62% of Chile's 19 million residents rejected the constitution, which was written by a convention composed equally of men and women.
The proposed constitution would have greatly increased the size, scope, and power of the government.
The stability afforded to the nation by its senate would have been forgone, as the upper chamber of the legislature would have been replaced with a diminished "Chamber of Regions."
According to Javier Couso, professor at Diego Portales University, it would also have made the country a "less business-friendly environment than what the Chilean entrepreneurs are used to." The government could seize mines and other properties, but instead of paying the owners the market value, the government would only have to pay a "fair price" set by one of its judges.
Article 64 of the proposed constitution stated, "Every person has the right to the free development and full recognition of their identity, in all its dimensions and manifestations, including sexual characteristics, gender identities and expressions, and sex-affective orientations." Extra to conferring this right, the state would guarantee the exercise of "identity" through "laws, affirmative actions and procedures."
Also required by the document (under Article 6): Women must compose over 50% of all public institutions' members. While women could compose a supermajority in a given ministry or on a semi-public board, and men but a sliver minority, the reverse would be illegal..............
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