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The state of suffrage in Chile since 1833: From 1833: Men over 25, if single, or 21, if married, able to read and write, and owning property or capital of a certain value fixed by law. (Art. 8 of the 1833 Constitution) The 1884 Election Law drops the ownership requirement for men and explicitly bans women from being registered. [29]
A constitutional referendum was held in Chile on 17 December 2023, [1] [2] to determine whether the public approved a new constitution drafted by an appointed committee of experts and amended by an elected Constitutional Council. [3] The new text of the constitution was approved by the Council on 30 October and put to a vote on 17 December. [4]
The proposed new constitution would replace the 1925 constitution, and was approved by over two-thirds of voters. [ 2 ] The referendum was controversial, as Chile was then being ruled by a military dictatorship, and it ensured that Augusto Pinochet would remain in power with a rule by decree until 1988, after which he was peacefully removed ...
The Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile of 1980 (Spanish: Constitución Política de la República de Chile) is the fundamental law in force in Chile.It was approved and promulgated under the military dictatorship headed by Augusto Pinochet, being ratified by the Chilean citizenry through a referendum on September 11, 1980, although being held under restrictions and without ...
Chile's President Sebastian Pinera on Monday signed off on a referendum to be held on a new constitution, which he vowed would generate a "solid, compassionate and legitimate framework" that would ...
On the wooden benches of Santiago’s Estadio Nacional, university professor Luís Cifuentes spent long, empty days in the spring of 1973 trying to ignore the agonizing screams emanating from the ...
Chapter VII (articles 251 to 278) establishes a bicameral National Congress of an asymmetric nature, with an indirectly elected Chamber of the Regions and a directly elected Congress of Deputies, establishing its duration — 4 years for both chambers —, the form of election of the members of them, their re-election limit —set at just one ...
34.34 23 Unity for Chile 27.73 16 Safe Chile 20.42 11 Indigenous list 3.03 1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Constitutional Council elections were held in Chile on 7 May 2023. Voting was compulsory, and resulted in an electoral victory for right-wing parties, passing the threshold of a three-fifths majority of constitutional council members to freely draft a ...