Chile is already
holding elections for a new constitutional council,
the second in just a year and in the midst of weariness and controversy over a process that began with great enthusiasm after the 2019 protests, known as "social outbreak."
These are the keys to understanding the complex election of a council that
will barely have six months to carry out its work
and that, unlike the previous one, will have to work within the margins of a dozen principles established by the political parties and on a draft designed by an expert advice.
- The Constituent Council
will have 50 members, 25 of them men and 25 women
.
Each voter can vote for only one candidate.
It could rise to 51 or 52 constituents if one of the representatives of the original peoples is elected.
- There are
353 candidates
distributed throughout the country, which has an electoral census of some 15 million people with the right to vote.
The president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, after voting in Punta Arenas.
AP Photo
The parties
- Most of the candidates
are linked to political parties
: the Republican Party -extreme right- and the People's Party -conservative populists.
Or to the electoral coalitions: Todo por Chile -center left-, Chile Seguro -right- Unity for Chile -close to the president, Gabriel Boric.
- In addition there will be
three independent candidates
, from three regions.
Jorge Sepúlveda (La Araucanía), Liset Quilodrán (Aysén) and Claudio Barrientos (Magallanes).
- There are also
two candidates from indigenous peoples
, who could be elected with a special ballot if they gather 1.5% of the votes at the national level.
The applicants are the Mapuche Alihuen Antileo Navarrete and Julio Nelson Marileo.
- Voting is, again,
mandatory throughout the country
, and those who cannot justify their absence will be fined.
- The parity principle will be applied to the preliminary results, which in principle does not specifically benefit any sex.
In the event that more women than men are elected, some of them will have to be subtracted and some of them added, and vice versa,
until there are 25 and 25 of each gender
.
Members of the security forces escort men deprived of their liberty to vote during the elections for the second constituent elections.
Photo EFE
Gender
- Probably, and considering the number of candidates, the corrections could favor more men than women.
- For the calculation, the three independent candidates are considered.
However, in the event of being elected,
these will not be subject to change
, since any alteration resulting from a parity adjustment is made exclusively within the lists, whether it be of a party or an electoral pact.
- If there is no parity in the result, that is, if there are more or less than 25 elected representatives of each sex, it
will be necessary to order the lists
according to the total number of votes they received at the national level, in order to make a change in one of the constituencies .
Specifically, the elected candidate of the majority sex with the fewest votes would be replaced by the one with the most votes from the opposite sex of the same party.
-It is important to note that changes
are never made between lists
.
Thus, for example, in the event that it was necessary to make an adjustment in the list of Chile Vamos, it could not be done through the candidates of the Republican list, nor by any other.
-If it is not possible to make the change, the following constituencies with the least votes on the list are reviewed until a change is made or until all constituencies have been reviewed.
If even so, parity is not achieved, it continues with the next list with the least votes.
- The most populated regions elect more representatives: Valparaíso, Metropolitana, Maule and La Araucanía
will elect five representatives
.
The regions of Antofagasta, Coquimbo, O'Higgins, Biobío, Los Ríos, and Los Lagos will elect three people, while Arica and Parinacota, Tarapacá, Atacama, Ñuble, Aysén, and Magallanes will choose two.
Source: EFE
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