Chile's conservatives take charge of constitution rewrite.
Chile's right-wing parties have won a majority of votes to elect advisers to draft a new constitution, marking a sharp shift from a progressive majority that drafted a failed first constitutional rewrite. The final results will determine the exact makeup of a 50-seat Constitutional Council that will be in charge of drafting a new constitution. The Republican Party, the most conservative of those represented in the new council, will now be the leading political force. The constitutional advisers elected on Sunday will start drawing up a new constitution in June based on a draft compiled by 24 constitutional experts appointed by the National Congress in March.