More than 15.4 million people are summoned to this Sunday’s plebiscite, the second to be held in the last 15 months to try to provide the country with a new fundamental law.

All the surveys known here before the ban on publishing opinion studies gave an advantage to the against option over the approval option, although in recent weeks the gap between the two has narrowed.

On the other hand, it is still unknown how around five million undecided or disinterested in the process will vote, who will participate in the referendum because voting is mandatory.

The Magna Carta proposal was rejected by broad sectors, specially the center-left, unions and women for containing chapters that constitute a regression in conquests achieved here.

Among the most controversial is the one that introduces the concept of “defending the life of the unborn,” which endangers the law on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy for three reasons: rape, fetal unfeasibility or danger to the life of the mother.

The elimination of the right to strike, the reduction of contributions to the communes and the granting of constitutional status to Pension Fund Administrators and private health insurance are also the epicenter of criticism.

The former member of the Constitutional Council for the Social Convergence party, Yerko Ljubetic, recently warned that the text that emerged from that instance, where the right and the extreme right had a majority, is worse than the one imposed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).

“We are between the bad and the worst,” Ljubetic said.

On the contrary, the project’s defenders argue that it includes citizen concerns such as growing insecurity or irregular migration, which they blame for the increase in crime.

The Electoral Service called on citizens to vote in peace, without violence and respecting the right of others to choose.

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