[passage] (El Comercio, 30 March) CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM GRANTING CONSTITUTIONAL AUTONOMY TO THE ELECTORAL SERVICE Having present that the National Congress has given its approval to the following Constitutional Reform Project: " Single article. Political Constitution of the Republic, whose consolidated, coordinated and systematized text was set by the Supreme Decree Nº100, 2005, of the Ministry's Ministry of General Secretariat, as follows: 1. IX for the following: "ELECTORAL SERVICE AND ELECTORAL JUSTICE". 2. Following the heading of Chapter IX, the following Article 94a: " Article 94 bis.-An autonomous body, with its own legal personality and its own heritage, called the Electoral Service, shall exercise administration, supervision and audit of electoral processes and plebiscitarians; compliance with the rules on transparency, limit and control of electoral expenditure; rules on political parties; and other functions that point to an organic law constitutional. The top leadership of the Electoral Service will be a Board of Directors, which will exercise exclusively the powers entrusted to it by the Constitution and the laws. The Council shall be composed of five members appointed by the President of the Republic, with the agreement of the Senate, adopted by the two-thirds of its members in office. The councilors will last ten years in their posts, they will not be able to be appointed for a new term and will be renewed for bias every two years. Members may only be removed by the Supreme Court, at the request of the President of the Republic or one-third of the members of the Chamber of Deputies, for serious infringement of the Constitution or laws, incapacity, behaviour or manifest negligence in the performance of his duties. The Court will be aware of the matter in plenary, specially called for the effect, and in order to agree the removal it will have to gather the assent of the majority of its members in exercise. The organization and powers of the Electoral Service will be established by a constitutional organic law. Its form of deconcentration, plants, remuneration and staff regulations shall be established by a law. " 3. Add the following transitional twenty-seventh provision: " Twenty-seventh.-By way of derogation from Article 94 bis, the current Board of Directors of the Electoral Service Board shall cease their positions according to the periods for which they are were appointed. The new members to appoint the year 2017 will last for six and eight years each, according to the President of the Republic in his proposal. Likewise, the new appointments to be made in 2021 will last for six, eight and ten years each, according to the President of the Republic in his proposal. In both cases, the Head of State shall formulate his proposal in a single act and the Senate shall decide on the whole of the proposal. Those who are currently in office may not be proposed for a new period, if with such extension they exceed the total period of ten years in the performance of the office. "". And because I have had to approve and sanction it; therefore, promulgate and take effect as the Law of the Republic. Santiago, 9 October 2015.-MICHELLE BACHELET, President of the Republic.-Nicolas Eyzaguirre Guzmán, Secretary General of the Presidency.-Jorge Burgos Varela, Minister of the Interior and Public Security. What I transcribe to you for your knowledge.-Saluda Atté. to Ud., Patricia Silva Melendez, Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency.