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January, 2024.- New results from the third phase of a study on the opinion of the citizens about the process of drafting a new constitution in Chile were released this week. The research is part of a collaboration project between the United Nations Development Program in Chile (UNDP) and the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data.
The Constitutional Listenings are a research project that looks for knowing and disseminating the opinions, expectations, and concerns of the citizens about democracy and the constitutional drafting process of 2023, with focus on some specific groups, to contribute to the public debate with a greater diversity of voices.
This third wave of results showed, for example, that 54% of the nearly 500 respondents learned about the constitutional drafting process through social media, but 76% believe that the information received through such platforms or media is not very credible.
Regarding the process of drafting a new constitution, people indicated that some of their expectations were met: it was orderly and quick (48%) and the ideas with which they entered the Council were maintained (33%). The least met expectations were the achievement of agreements (23%) and listening to the citizenship (26%).
The Constitutional Lestenings initiative of the UNDP with the IMFD is part of the long-standing work of the UNDP in Chile that seeks to analyze democracy, and the public opinion of it and its institutions.
By the end of the first quarter of 2024, a longitudinal report is expected to be released: it will include what changed and what remain in terms of attitudes and expectations throughout the three phases of the study. The ultimate goal is that these analyses may provide information about people’s views and democratic processes.
