A woman casts her vote in the elections for governors, mayors, councillors and constitutional assembly members to draft a new constitution to replace Chile's charter, in Santiago, Chile May 15, 2021. REUTERS/Pablo Sanhueza
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chileans began to vote on Saturday in a mega-election in which they will pick mayors, governors, councillors and critically, the 155 men and women who will draft the country's next constitution.
Changing the constitution was a central demand to emerge from fierce social protests that erupted over inequality and elitism in October 2019.
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