Overview

• Chilean right-wing parties won a majority of votes to elect advisers to draft a new constitution.
• The far-right Republican Party led in the vote count with 35% of the vote.
• A left-leaning coalition, Unity for Chile, was in second place with 28% of the vote, and a center-right alliance, Safe Chile, was in third with 21%.
• The commission's proposal will be put before a plebiscite in December.
• The rewrite of Chile's constitution began after protests in 2019, but there was broad disinterest in the constitutional process before Sunday's vote.