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The transition period lasted roughly two years, [2] although some aspects of the process lasted significantly longer. Unlike most democratic transitions, led by either the elite or the people, Chile's democratic transition process is known as an intermediate transition [1] – a transition involving both the regime and the civil society. [3]
Between 1989 and 2013, elections in Chile were carried out following a binomial voting system, which was prescribed in 1980 during the Military dictatorship of Chile. The binomial system was considered by most analysts as the main constitutional lock that prevented completion of the Chilean transition to democracy.
According to the V-Dem Democracy indices, Chile was the third most electorally democratic country in Latin America in 2023. [2] Statistical analysis suggests that Chilean politicians in Congress are not randomly drawn from the population but over-represent high-income communities.
The Chilean transition to democracy begins. 1991: June 18: More than 90 people die in Antofagasta and Taltal as result of mudflows generated by unusual rainfall in the Atacama Desert. [82] June 21: The volcano Mount Hudson erupts, in one of the world's largest volcanic eruptions of the twentieth century. 1994: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is elected ...
The president of Chile issued a fervent defense of democracy on Monday, the 50th anniversary of the coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet that ushered in a brutal military dictatorship for almost two ...
Although Chile had officially become a democracy, the Chilean military led by Pinochet remained highly powerful during the presidency of Aylwin, and the Constitution ensured the continued influence of Pinochet and his commanders, which prevented his government from achieving many of the goals it had set, such as the restructuring of the ...
Signatures of members of the Government Junta, 1973. On 11 September 1973, the day of the coup, the military officers issued an Act of Constitution.The act established a junta government that immediately suspended the constitution, suspended Congress, imposed strict censorship and curfew, proscribed the leftist parties that had constituted Salvador Allende's Popular Unity coalition, and halted ...
Chile's President Gabriel Boric has become the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole, after arriving at a US base there. The president said his visit to the Amundsen-Scott South ...