Another bloc of center-left parties received 9%.

Servel did not immediately reveal how many writers each party chose.

The new Constitutional Council will have 50 members and the articles must be approved by a three-fifths majority and included in a proposal to be put to a plebiscite on 17 December. In the first process, a stronger two-thirds majority was required to approve the standards.

“We can breathe a little easier and lighter. Today is the first day of a better future, a new beginning for ChileKast, who lost in the second round to Borich, said in one of his first reactions after the results were announced.

“Chile she defeated a failed government,” Kast added.

In a statement issued shortly thereafter from the presidential palace of La Moneda, Borić acknowledged the triumph of the right-wing opposition and said that “the previous process failed, also because we did not know how to listen to each other among those who thought otherwise.” “

“I want to invite the Republican Party, which has won an uncontested first majority, don’t make the same mistake as usBoris insisted. “This process cannot be about “vendettas”, but about putting Chile“.

Sunday’s elections are the latest step in a process that began in late 2019 after a period of intense street protests aimed at drafting a new constitution to replace the current one created under Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship.

Almost 80% of chilliHe voted for us in 2020 to draft a new Magna Carta, but the process started by that vote failed last September, when almost 63% of voters in a historic election voted down the proposal.

This first bill was drafted largely by independent and left-wing voters and dealt with broad social benefits, environmental rights, gender parity, and indigenous rights, among other things.

President Boric, who took office in March last year, came to power on a wave of optimism about reforms, but his approval ratings have since plummeted as a slowing economy, rising inflation and rising crime have become voters’ top concerns.

The failure of the first attempt also meant a heavy political defeat for Borić and his government, who saw him as the key to pushing reforms.

The drafters of the constitution, elected on Sunday, will begin their work in June on the basis of a draft prepared since March by 24 experts appointed by Congress. (Reuters).