The far-right Republican Party came out ahead in Chile in the election of members of the Constitutional Council on May 7, 2023. Elected representatives will be responsible for drafting a new Constitution, replacing the current text written under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
On September 4, 2022, Chileans had already rejected, in a referendum, a first text written by an assembly composed of representatives of civil society. Franck Gaudichaud, historian specializing in Chile, and professor at the University of Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès, talks to RFI's Marion Cazanove.