Activists, politicians and TV hosts jostle to rewrite Chile's constitution


  • World
  • Friday, 14 May 2021

Maria Jose "Cote" Cumplido, hoping to be elected when Chileans vote to pick constitutional assembly members to draft a new constitution, poses for a photograph at her home, in Santiago, Chile May 12, 2021. REUTERS/Pablo Sanhueza

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - On a crisp spring day in 2019, Cote Cumplido took up a banner and joined more than a million people marching through the streets of the Chilean capital Santiago to demand greater equality and major changes to its political system.

Now the 33-year-old is handing out flyers with her own name on them on, hoping to be elected this weekend to a body of representatives who will over the next year lead an historic rewrite of the Andean country's constitution.

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