Government of Chile - Politics of Chile, Constitution of Chile, Chamber of Deputies of Chile, President of Chile, Senate of Chile (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Politics of Chile, Constitution of Chile, Chamber of Deputies of Chile, President of Chile, Senate of Chile, Central Bank of Chile, Government Junta of Chile, Water privatization in Chile, Carabineros de Chile, President of the Senate of Chile, Socialist Republic of Chile, Supreme Court of Chile, Royal Audiencia of Santiago, Chilean coup d'etat, Cedula de identidad, List of Government Juntas of Chile, ONEMI, National Statistics Institute, National Congress of Chile, O'Higgins Pioche, CORFO, Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria de Chile, Corporacion Nacional Forestal, Chilean Council of State, National Monuments Council. Excerpt: The Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Chile (Spanish: ) 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. It comprises 120 deputies, who are elected to four-year terms, by direct universal suffrage, from 60 two-member electoral districts. 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. Chile's congressional elections are governed by a unique binomial system that rewards coalition slates. Each coalition can run two candidates for each electoral district's two Chamber seats. Typically, the two largest coalitions in a district divide 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 does the winning coalition gain both seats. The Chamber of Deputies meets in Chile's National Congress located in the port city of Valparaiso, some 120 km west of the capital, Santiago. The Congress building in Valparaiso replaced the ...