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- ↑ "Chileans vote for 155-member assembly to draft new constitution". Al Jazeera. 16 May 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ↑ "Chile: 17 of 155 Constitutional Assembly seats will be reserved for Indigenous groups". Open Democracy. 21 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ↑ Mohor, Daniela (4 July 2021). "How to write a new constitution for a divided and unequal Chile". CNN . Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ↑ "Diez puntos sobre el cambio constitucional en Chile". Nueva Sociedad. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ↑ "Guía legal sobre: Convención Constitucional1" (in Spanish). Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile. 7 April 2021. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- ↑ "Sentencia final calificación elecciones de constituyentes" (pdf) (in Spanish). Tribunal Calificador de Elecciones. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.