Chile’s ruling centre-right Chile Vamos party has failed to win the one-third of seats it required to control the country’s constitutional drafting body in elections held over the weekend. The nationwide elections overwhelmingly favoured independents in the one hundred and fifty-five member body preparing to write a new constitution to replace the one written during the rule of former dictator Augusto Pinochet. The result is a rebuke of President Sebastián Piñera and his party, with Piñera saying the result shows his government is out of touch with the people ahead of presidential and legislative elections in November.