Politics of Chile Politics of Chile Chile's government is a representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Chile is both head of state and head of government, and of a formal multi-party system that in practice behaves like a two-party one, due to binomialism. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of the National Congress. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature of Chile. The Constitution of Chile was approved in a national plebiscite in September 1980, under the military government of dictator Augusto Pinochet. It entered into
President of the Senate elected as the first item of business at the start of every legislative session. While the Speaker of the Senate of Canada, who serves as the presiding officer of the Senate of Canada, is not described as a "president" in English, the position is called "Président du Sénat" in French. He is appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister. The President of the Senate of Chile is elected from among the country's senators. The holder of the position, since March 2010, is Jorge Pizarro. The President of the Senate – Ernesto Macías Tovar for the