The 50 members of the body that will draft a new proposal to bury the Magna Carta assume the task in a completely different act in form and substance from the first process, two years ago. The 2021 ceremony, when the Constitutional Convention took office, started amid great citizen expectation impregnated with epic, symbolism and protests.

The first elected as president an indigenous Mapuche, Dr. Elisa Loncon, 58, won office after two rounds of voting, with the support of indigenous constituents, left-wing parties and anti-establishment capitalist independents.