Left-wing critics of the existing constitution, who have led the charge for a drastic rewrite, had pushed a vision of putting issues like gender and environmental protection at the core of the proposed document, as well as issues like rights and protections of the indigenous population. The media had labeled it a push for 'the world's most progressive constitution'. For example a year ago as the new draft was pushed forward, The Guardian quoted progressives as follows: María Elisa Quinteros, the president of the gender-equal, 154-member assembly will formally present the draft at a ceremony in the port city of Antofagasta on Monday afternoon. “This is an ecological and equal constitution with social rights at its very core,” she said in an interview. Among the long list of rights and freedoms the draft enshrines, the new constitution makes higher education free, ensures gender parity across government and makes the state responsible for preventing, adapting to and mitigating climate change. One social media commentator noted the progressives' rewrite plan ultimately backfired in spectacular fashion... Socialists in Chile attempt to rewrite the constitution It backfired so hard they give the right-wing parties a supermajority in parliament **Socialists effectively handed the mandate to rewrite the country's constitution to a bunch of Pinochetists** AHah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHg7PEpSRm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z66Tfe1Znf8