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Copied from existing 2022 Chilean national plebiscite

Analysis
Chileans views on the new constitution changed throughout the process. After the Constitutional Convention first started working in August 2021, when asked if they believed that the new constitution resulting from the process would help solve Chile's problems, have no effect, or worse the current situation, 49% said it would have a positive effect, and only 15% said it would have a negative effect. However, in May 2022, only 36% of Chileans said that they believed the new constitution would have a positive effect.

Doubts about the representativeness of the Constitutional Convention's members and fears about the negative impacts of the new constitution led to its rejection. In a study carried out by the independent think tank Espacio Público-IPSOS in July 2022, 38% of respondents believed that the New Constitution would bring about many bad changes for the country, while only 23% believed it would bring many good changes. Respondents also felt the members of the Constitutional Convention were unrepresentative of Chileans as a whole: 59% of respondents said they didn’t believe the composition of the Constitutional Convention was a good representative of the diversity of Chilean society, and 63% of respondents said they did not feel represented by the Constitutional Convention.

Chileans were also skeptical of particular elements of the New Constitution. The aspects of the New Constitution with the worst evaluations were the indigenous justice system, the plurinational state, and the role of Congress. Participants believed that the New Constitution would worsen the sale and consumption of drugs, unemployment, poverty, and political corruption.

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While right-wing movements spearheaded the majority of campaigns for rejecting the New Constitution, some center-left movements also joined in the campaigning for rejection. Cristián Warnken, the spokesperson for the center-left party Amarillos por Chile, said, "[The rejection] was not a triumph of a political party, nor of a sector, it is the voice of a deep Chile, of the common and ordinary people that with political wisdom has once again sent us a very clear message: we want a new and good Constitution, but made from dialogue, not from intolerance; from agreement; not from maximalism and with a re-foundational spirit."