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
Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Chile) Salaberry. In the absence (because of travel, death, or other impediment) of the President of Chile, the Minister of the Interior becomes Vice President; however this is not a true Vice Presidential position, but rather a position of a Designated Acting President, as the post of Vice President of Chile has no existence independent from the Ministership of the Interior. During the first days of the independence movements, the senior "secretary" of the respective Junta would function as the "Secretary of Government". The office officially first came to be on October 27, 1812, when it was one of the two