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The National Congress of Chile [1] (Spanish: Congreso Nacional de Chile) is the legislative branch of the Republic of Chile. According to the current Constitution (Chilean Constitution of 1980), it is a bicameral organ made up of a Chamber of Deputies and a Senate. Established by law No. 18678, [2] the city of Valparaíso is its official ...
The Library of the National Congress of Chile (Spanish: Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile, BCN) is a service of the National Congress of Chile that serves as an information center for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. The library advises parliamentarians in the social sciences, law, legislation, history, and the development of Chile.
Chile's government is a representative democratic republic, in which the President of Chile serves as both head of state and head of government, within a formal multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the president and their cabinet. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of the National Congress.
During this time a Government Junta of Chile as well as a National Congress were organized to administer the country during the imprisonment of the king. The Congress passed a law decreeing Liberty of the Womb, which stated that all children of slaves born on Chilean soil from that point onwards would be free. In 1812, the first constitutional ...
The gestation of this first congress came directly from the First Government Board, installed on September 18, 1810, since the junta had been elected only by the inhabitants of Santiago, being therefore the expression of a single city, and therefore only took the title of provisional government, [1] only "while the deputies of all the provinces of Chile were summoned and arrived, to organize ...
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Timeline of Chilean history; The following lists events that happened during 1922 in Chile. Incumbents
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.
Front of Former National Congress Building, Santiago. The Former National Congress Building (ex Congreso Nacional) is the former home of the Chilean Congress.Congress met in this building in central Santiago until Salvador Allende's socialist government was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet's military coup d'état on September 11, 1973.