Chile right-wing parties win majority in vote to draft new constitution

Chile: Conservatives will now control Constitution rewrite

Chile seemed on the cusp of a progressive revolution last year when a committee dominated by leftists drafted a bold new constitution to replace the country’s dictatorship-era charter

Chile: Conservatives will now control Constitution rewrite

Chile seemed on the cusp of a progressive revolution last year when a committee dominated by leftists drafted a bold new constitution to replace the country’s dictatorship-era charter. But voters have put the brakes on the effort, first rejecting the proposed constitution and now giving conservatives the leading role in writing its replacement.The far-right in Chile was the big winner of Sunday’s vote to select the members of the commission that…

Chile: Conservatives to Draw up Fresh Constitution After Romping Assembly Elections

'Common sense ideas have triumphed,' leader Jose Antonio Kast told cheering crowds as the results came in. 'Today Chile has also defeated a failed government.'

Chile: major blow to president as far right triumphs in key constitution vote

‘Earthquake in Chilean politics’ as ultra-conservative Republican party wins 22 of 50 seats on body to rewrite Pinochet-era document

Rightwing parties to control Chile's new constituent assembly

José Antonio Kast's far-right Republican Party Sunday scored a resounding victory in the elections to form the 50-member council which will draft a new Constitution for Chile after last year's reformed text was turned down by 62% of the votes in a referendum.

Chile elects right-wing parties to rewrite constitution after rejecting 'world's most progressive' charter

Moving away from a constitution that focused on social benefits, environmental rights, gender parity and indigenous rights, Chile on Sunday voted for the nation's right-wing parties to elect advisers who will draft a new constitution.  This, as per Reuters, marks a sharp shift from a progressive majority that drafted a failed first constitutional rewrite.  A tally of about 95.13 per cent of the ballots revealed that Chile's Republican Party, le