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Hubris comes before a fall though, and the results have, without hyperbole, been a political earthquake. The Concertación parties got 25 seats rather than 45, and the Christian Democrats, Chile’s main political party since the 1960s, were virtually wiped out. Only two members of the Convention were elected on their list, and only one of them is a member of the party.
The Right list got 37 seats, not enough to hold a veto over the proceedings, which require a two-thirds majority for approval. Even if they vote together, the centrists and the right can’t scrape enough votes to get a third of the Convention. Their historic stranglehold on Chilean politics is broken for the first time since 1970.