Chile's Constitutional Council will raise uncertainty

Significance

In the Council’s election on May 7, the Republicans, a relatively new far-right party, obtained a landslide victory. However, suggestions that the party is in pole position to form the next government in 2026 are extremely premature.

Impacts

• The right, with Republicans’ 23 seats and the centre-right’s eleven, has the two-thirds majority to control the Constitutional Council.
• The next important test of the political climate will be regional and local government elections in October 2024.
• Attention will now focus on the (sometimes controversial) voting record of Republican representatives in Congress.