‘Dangerous for women’: warning as Chileans vote on new draft constitution

Children and women to lose out if voters approve new document that critics say reads ‘more like a Republican party manifesto’

Activists and analysts in Chile have warned that swathes of the country’s population stand to lose out should a new draft constitution drawn up by conservative lawmakers be approved in a nationwide referendum on Sunday.

Chileans head to the polls caught between exhaustion and resentment in a compulsory vote to decide whether the 1980 constitution written during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, and since reformed, should be replaced.