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Broad Front (Chile)
The Broad Front ( es, Frente Amplio, FA) is a Chilean political coalition founded in early 2017, composed of left-wing parties and movements. Its first electoral contest was the 2017 Chilean general election, where their presidential candidate Beatriz Sánchez came third with 20% of the vote in the first round of election (she just missed getting to the second-round run-off by 3%). The Broad Front also expanded their electoral representation to 20 deputies (out of 155), 1 senator (out of 43) and 21 out of 278 Regional Councillors, thus consolidating the movement as the 'third force' in Chilean politics. Platform and ideology The Broad Front's Declaration of Principles states five central aims as their reasons for political action: # Promote an inclusive country, that respects the environment and safeguard social rights (such as education and healthcare). # Move away from neoliberal economic policies and towards a socialist model of development. # Create an alternative to challen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Boric
Gabriel Boric Font (; born 11 February 1986) is a Chilean left-wing politician who is the 37th and current president of Chile, serving since 11 March 2022. Boric studied in the Faculty of Law at the University of Chile, and was the president of the University of Chile Student Federation from 2011 to 2012. As a student representative, he became one of the leading figures of the 2011–2013 Chilean student protests. Boric was twice elected to the Chamber of Deputies representing the Magallanes and Antarctic district, first as an independent candidate in 2013 and then in 2017 as part of the Broad Front, a left-wing coalition he created with several other parties. He is a founding member of Social Convergence, which was formed in 2018 and is one of the constituent parties of Broad Front. During the 2019 civil unrest in Chile, Boric was one of the politicians negotiating the agreement that paved the way for a referendum to change the Constitution. However in 2022, the more prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlado Mirosevic
Vlado Mirosevic Verdugo (born 23 May 1987 in Arica) is a Chilean political scientist and politician who currently serves as President of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile. He is one of the founders of the Liberal Party of Chile, and served as its president until January 2016. He has since 2014 been serving as deputy for the 1st district, the Region of Arica and Parinacota. Biography Vlado Mirosevic was born in Arica in 1987. He studied at "Collegio Andino" in his hometown. He served as the leader of the student council during middle school and later as president of the Federation of High School students of Arica and Parinacota (FESAP) in 2003 and 2004. Mirosevic studied political science at the Central University of Chile in Santiago and did afterwards study a master in digital journalism in the University Mayor ( Universidad Mayor) Mirosevic published investigations about international agencies such as the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (Comision Econ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humanist Party (Chile)
The Humanist Party ( es, Partido Humanista) is a universal humanist, progressive, and left-wing political party in Chile, founded in 1984. The party is a member of the Humanist International. In December 1990, Laura Rodríguez became the first elected representative of any Humanist Party in the world after winning a seat as part of the ''Concertación'' coalition, after Augusto Pinochet handed over power. At the 2001 legislative elections, the party won 1.1% of the vote but no seats. For the 2005 presidential elections, the Humanist Party was a member of the coalition Juntos Podemos Más (Together We Can Do/Achieve More). Their presidential candidate Tomás Hirsch won 5.4% of the vote in a 4-way race between Michelle Bachelet, Sebastián Piñera, and Joaquín Lavín in the 2005 elections. He polled 4th place and therefore did not make the runoff. On 12 March 2013 they selected economist and university professor Marcel Claude as their candidate for the 2013 presidential el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libertarian Left (Chile)
The Libertarian Left ( es, Izquierda Libertaria, IL) is a Chilean political and social movement formed in 2015 from the merger of the Libertarian Communist Organization (OCL), the Libertarian Students Front (FEL), the Ernesto Miranda Fighting Muralist Units (UMLEM) and other groups. Origin In the 1990s, libertarian communism began to rearticulate in Chile, and the Anarcho Communist Unification Congress (CUAC) was founded in 1999, which would be the first political organization in this process that sought to establish a specific anarcho-communist organization. Later, and a direct continuation of this experience, the Libertarian Communist Organization (OCL) was created in 2002 to build underground political-social fronts throughout the country, including the Libertarian Students Front (FEL). In 2015, this organization, along with other groups and expressions of the Chilean libertarian and rebel movement, entered a Strategic Congress where the creation of the Libertarian Left was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Revolution
Democratic Revolution () is a Chilean centre-left to left-wing political party, founded in 2012 by some of the leaders of the 2011 Chilean student protests, most notably the current Deputy Giorgio Jackson, who is also the most popular public figure of the party. Their principles are based on advocating for participative democracy and the overcoming of neoliberalism in Chile. History The movement was founded on January 7, 2012, adding up to more than 4000 supporters in the first week. They presented three candidates for the 2013 Chilean parliamentary election, winning one seat in the Chamber of Deputies, the former student leader Giorgio Jackson. They did not support any of the presidential candidates, although the majority of the movement decided to request the vote for Michelle Bachelet in the second round of the election. The same year, the movement elected their first Executive Committee, led by Miguel Crispi and Sebastián Depolo. In mid-2015, the members of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autonomist Movement
The Autonomist Movement was a Chilean political movement which was a founding member of the Broad Front on 21 January 2017. One year later, the movement merged into the party Social Convergence alongside Libertarian Left, Socialism and Liberty and New Democracy. Notable members * Gabriel Boric * Constanza Schönhaut * Jorge Sharp Jorge Esteban Sharp Fajardo (born 25 March 1985) is a Chilean lawyer and politician. He is the current Mayor of Valparaíso. Early life Born in Punta Arenas, Magallanes Region, he is the son of Leonor Fajardo Filipic and Jorge Sharp Galetovic ... References External links Autonomist Movement news at CNN Chile Chilean political movements {{Chile-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Chile (2013)
The Liberal Party of Chile ( es, Partido Liberal de Chile) is a social-liberal political party in Chile, founded 26 January 2013 in Santiago, Chile. The main figure of the party is the deputy Vlado Mirosevic. Ideology The Liberal Party of Chile is a social-liberal party. It promotes egalitarian liberalism and progressivism (with particular reference to the social liberalism in Europe). Chilean social liberalism In Chile, the word liberal is, after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, often synonymous with technocracy, classic liberalism and economic liberalism. The Liberal Party of Chile is based on social liberalism and thus opposes the neoliberalism that still influences many Chilean institutions. Following the tradition of the first liberals of the 19th century, the Liberal Party of Chile intends to combine its economic policy with a strong social policy. Platform The Liberal Party of Chile supports same-sex marriage, the legalisation of marijuana, the legalisation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concertación
The Concertación, officially the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia ( en, Coalition of Parties for Democracy), was a coalition of center-left political parties in Chile, founded in 1988. Presidential candidates under its banner won every election from when military rule ended in 1990 until the conservative candidate Sebastián Piñera won the Chilean presidential election in 2010. In 2013 it was replaced by New Majority coalition. History In 1987 General Augusto Pinochet, the dictator of Chile, legalized political parties and called a plebiscite to determine whether or not he would remain in power after 1990. Several parties, including the Christian Democracy, the Socialist Party and the Radical Party, gathered in the Democratic Alliance (''Alianza Democrática''). In 1988, several more parties, including the Humanist Party, the Ecologist Party, the Social Democrats, and several Socialist Party splinter groups added their support, despite fears of electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Majority (Chile)
New Majority may refer to: * ''New Majority'' (TV series), a Canadian current affairs television series * Nueva Mayoría (New Majority) (Chile), a Chilean centre-left electoral coalition created in 2013 * New Majority (Slovakia), a conservative political party in Slovakia * New Majority (Peru), a right-wing Peruvian political party * New Majority (Monaco) New Majority may refer to: * ''New Majority'' (TV series), a Canadian current affairs television series * Nueva Mayoría (New Majority) (Chile), a Chilean centre-left electoral coalition created in 2013 * New Majority (Slovakia), a conservative ..., a Monegasque centre-right coalition created in 2016 * ''The New Majority'' (book), book by Pat Buchanan {{disambig, political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chile Vamos
(Spanish for "Let’s go Chile”) is a centre-right to right-wing political coalition of three political parties in Chile. The coalition was created on 29 January 2015 by the general secretaries of the Independent Democrat Union (UDI), National Renewal (RN), Democratic Independent Regionalist Party (PRI) and Political Evolution (Evópoli). For the 2021 parliamentary election, the coalition was renamed (stylized , Spanish for "Chile we can (do) more"). History On August 2, 2014, during the National Council of National Renewal in Santiago, the party chairman Cristián Monckeberg called his group together with the UDI and then political movement Evópoli to refound the Alliance under the name ''Coalition for Freedom''. Negotiations were also held with the Independent Regionalist Party so that it would join the coalition, which concluded in December 2014 with the creation of a new coalition agreed to contest the municipal elections of 2016, and the presidential, parliamentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Jackson
Kenneth Giorgio Jackson Drago (born 6 February 1987) is a Chilean politician and engineer who has been serving as Chile's Minister of Social Development since 6 September 2022. He previously served as Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency between March and September 2022. He is founder and first congressman of the political party Democratic Revolution, achieving the highest personal vote in the 2017 elections to the lower chamber. He was one of the leaders of the student mobilizations of 2011 and collaborated in the creation of the Chilean Broad Front and the presidential candidacy of Beatriz Sánchez. After the mobilizations of 2011, together with social activists and other student leaders, they called for the founding of a political movement that became the Democratic Revolution party. In the 2013 parliamentary elections in Chile, he was elected as deputy for Santiago Centro. In the parliamentary elections of Chile in 2017 he was elected as deputy for the new Distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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