Chamber of Deputies of Chile explained

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Chamber of Deputies
Coa Pic:Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados de Chile.svg
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Session Room:Ministro Prokurica en la Cámara de Diputados (50664794556).jpg
House Type:Lower House
Body:National Congress of Chile
Election1:15 April 2024
Leader2 Type:First Vice-President
Election2:24 July 2023
Leader3 Type:Second Vice-President
Election3:24 July 2023
Members:155
Structure1:Diputados Chile.svg
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Political Groups1:Government (67)

External support (7)

Opposition (81)

Term Length:4 years
Voting System1:Open list proportional representation through the D'Hondt method with no threshold in multi-seat constituencies
Website:http://www.camara.cl

The Chamber of Deputies (Spanish; Castilian: Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados|links=no) is the lower house of Chile's bicameral Congress. Its organisation and its powers and duties are defined in articles 42 to 59 of Chile's current constitution.

Eligibility

Deputies must: be aged at least 21; not be disqualified from voting; have finished secondary school or its equivalent; and have lived in the corresponding electoral district for at least two years prior to the election.

Electoral system

Since 2017, Chile's congress has been elected through open list proportional representation under the D'Hondt method.

Before 2017, a unique binomial system was used. These system rewards coalition slates. Each coalition could run two candidates for each electoral district's two Chamber seats. Typically, the two largest coalitions in a district divided the seats, one each, among themselves. Only if the leading coalition ticket out-polls the second-place coalition by a margin of more than two-to-one did the winning coalition gain both seats.with seats allocated using the simple quotient.The Chamber of Deputies meets in Chile's National Congress located in the port city of Valparaíso, some 120 km west of the capital, Santiago. The Congress building in Valparaíso replaced the old National Congress, located in downtown Santiago, in 1990

President of the Chamber

On 11 March 2022, it was agreed that the Presidency of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies would rotate between the Party for Democracy (PPD), Communist Party (PC), Christian Democratic Party (DC), Party of the People (PDG), the Broad Front (FA) and the Liberal Party (PL).[1] Likewise, the first and second vice-presidencies were assigned to people who are members of the PR, FA, PS, PC, DC and PPD.

Political composition (2022-2026)

Current party representation in the Chamber of Deputies
Parliamentary GroupLeaderSeatsSeat SharePolitical positionIdeology
 Broad Front and independentsCamila Rojas2314.84%Left-wingDemocratic socialism, Progressivism
 Independent Democratic UnionJuan Antonio Coloma2214.19%Right-wingGremialismo, Conservatism, Economic liberalism
 National RenewalXimena Ossandón2214.19%Centre-right to right-wingConservatism, Liberal conservatism
 Radical - Liberal - DCLuis Malla149.03%Centre to centre-leftRadicalism, Social liberalism, Christian democracy
 Communist, Social Green Regionalist Federation, Humanist Action and independentsLuis Cuello149.03%Left-wing to far-leftCommunism, Green politics, Universal humanism
 SocialistDaniel Melo138.39%Centre-left to left-wingSocial democracy, Democratic socialism
 Republican PartyStephan Schubert127.74%Far-rightNational conservatism
 Party for DemocracyJaime Araya95.81%Centre-leftSocial democracy
 Democrats, Yellows and independentsJoanna Pérez85.16%Centre to centre-rightChristian democracy
 Christian Social Party and independentsFrancesca Muñoz74.52%Right-wingChristian right
 Jorge Guzmán42.58%Centre-rightClassical liberalism
 Independents CommitteePamela Jiles31.94%Left-wingLeft-wing populism
 Independents without a parliamentary group 42.58%
Total155100%

Deputies

2018-2022

See main article: LV legislative period of the Chilean Congress.

2022-2026

See main article: LVI legislative period of the Chilean Congress.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The PPD Raúl Soto will assume presidency of the Chamber of Deputies . . 11 March 2022 . 11 March 2022.