'Rebirth': Chileans vote by millions to tear up Pinochet's constitution

A poll worker wearing a protective mask shows a vote for a constitutional convention during a referendum on a new Chilean constitution, in Valparaiso, Chile October 25, 2020. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chileans poured into the country's main squares on Sunday night after voters gave a ringing endorsement to a plan to tear up the country's Pinochet-era constitution in favour of a new charter drafted by citizens.

In Santiago's Plaza Italia, the focus of the massive and often violent social protests last year which sparked the demand for a new magna carta, fireworks rose above a crowd of tens of thousands of jubilant people singing in unison as the word "rebirth" was beamed onto a tower above.