nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200519-133659-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200519s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200519-133659-0 doi eng 342 23 Cofre, Leonardo Author aut Chile and COVID-19: A Constitutional Authoritarian Temptation Cofre, Leonardo Verfassungsblog 2020-05-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Due to the pandemic, Chile's 2020 electoral calendar has been modified, delaying the most important political event of the year: the April referendum for a new constitution. While the postponement is reasonable considering the current sanitary situation, recent suggestions that there be a further postponement due to a possible post-pandemic economic crisis threaten the democratic legitimacy of the process. As argued in this post, these measures and opinions, when read together, put the government close to an authoritarian use of the constitution. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutional referendum Coronavirus COVID 19 Emergency Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/chile-and-covid-19-a-constitutional-authoritarian-temptation/ raw object