(Spanish for "Let’s go Chile”) is a

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to right-wing

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of three political parties in

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. The coalition was created on 29 January 2015 by the general secretaries of the

Independent Democrat Union The Independent Democratic Union (''Unión Demócrata Independiente'', UDI) is a conservative and right-wing political party in Chile, founded in 1983. Its founder was the lawyer, politician and law professor Jaime Guzmán, a civilian allied with ...

(UDI), National Renewal (RN),

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(PRI) and

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(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

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under the name ''Coalition for Freedom''. Negotiations were also held with the

Independent Regionalist Party The Independent Regionalist Party ( es, Partido Regionalista Independiente, PRI) was a centrist political party in Chile. The party was regionalist ideologically but had a nationwide presence. It was intended to be an alternative to the dominant ...

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 and regional councilors elections of 2017. The new coalition was made official on January 29, 2015, and the process of finding a name for the new referent began. In August 2015, the four member parties agreed to submit two lists for the election of councilors in 2016: one consisting of RN and UDI, and the other composed of the PRI and Evópoli. The same month, the name "" ("Let's get up") emerged as the name that generated greater consensus within the coalition as its mark. However, the name was challenged by the

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, which objected to similarities with its own name and logo. The opposition bloc responded that the name of the coalition was not yet formalized and that "" was only one of the options to consider. The name "" was decided on 4 October 2015. Following the election of

Sebastián Sichel Sebastián Iglesias Sichel Ramírez (born 30 July 1977) is a Chilean lawyer, professor, ex minister of State and politician who served as president of the () from June 2020 until December 2020. He also previously served as Minister of Social ...

as the coalition's candidate during the 2021 presidential primaries, has been considering changing the name of the coalition, with most suggestions revolving around Sichel's campaign slogan "" (It is possible). On August 20, 2021, the name of the coalition was officially changed to "" ("Chile can do more").

Frictions

The impact of the 2019-20 Chilean protests and the management of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a series of differences and frictions between the different parties of . In late 2019, UDI froze for a few months their membership with the coalition because of major disagreements with some policies of their fellow parties.

For the 2021 Constitutional Convention election, and the Republican Party agreed to participate in a joint list called (Spanish for "Let's go for Chile") as a way to ensure the combined list could secure the third of seats needed in the Constitutional Convention to veto proposals to be included in the new Constitution of Chile. The single list, however, had the worst electoral result for any right-wing alliance since the reestablishment of democracy in Chile. got 20% of the votes and only 37 of the 155 seats in the Convention.

Composition

Political council

The coalition has a political council with 47 members: 16 independents, 10 from National Renewal, 10 from the Independent Democratic Union, 6 from Political Evolution and 5 from the Independent Regionalist Party. *

Independent Democratic Union The Independent Democratic Union (''Unión Demócrata Independiente'', UDI) is a conservative and right-wing political party in Chile, founded in 1983. Its founder was the lawyer, politician and law professor Jaime Guzmán, a civilian allied with ...

: **

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** María José Hoffmann ** Juan Antonio Coloma ** Patricio Melero ** Jaime Bellolio ** Edmundo Eluchans ** Jorge Castro ** Francisco de la Maza **

Andrés Chadwick Andrés Pío Bernardino Chadwick Piñera (born 2 January 1956) is a Chilean right-wing politician and lawyer, member of the Independent Democrat Union (UDI) party. He began his political career as a supporter of the Pinochet dictatorship, and ...

: ** Jorge Saint-Jean ** Andrés Molina ** Lorena Recabarren ** Felipe Morandé ** Pedro Pablo Errázuriz **

Luciano Cruz-Coke Luciano Cruz-Coke Carvallo (born July 1, 1970 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean actor, and was the Minister of Arts and Culture under the 35th President Sebastián Piñera. Biography Cruz-Coke is the son of lawyer and university professor Carl ...

* National Renewal: **

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Andrés Allamand Andrés Allamand Zavala (born February 7, 1956), a Chilean politician, is the founder and one of the past leaders of Renovación Nacional. He is of French, and Basque descent. On January 14, 2011 he was named Minister of Defense by president S ...

** Alberto Espina **

Manuel José Ossandón Manuel José Ossandón Irarrázabal, colloquially "Cote Ossandón", (born Viña del Mar, Región de Valparaíso, 24 August 1962) is an agricultural technician and a senator of Chile for the 8th Senatorial District. He was elected during the parli ...

Carlos Larraín Carlos Larraín was the President of National Renewal (Renovación Nacional). Biography Carlos Larraín Peña received an LL.B. from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1967, and an M.A. from the Université catholique de Louvain in ...

** Nicolás Monckeberg **

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** Felipe Guevara ** José Miguel Arellano **

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: ** Eduardo Salas ** Hugo Ortiz de Filippi ** Yuri Olivares ** Mario González Rubio ** Alejandro Fuentes * Independents: **

Sebastián Piñera Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique OMCh (; born 1 December 1949) is a Chilean billionaire businessman and politician who served as president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022. The son of a Christian Democratic polit ...

** Soledad Arellano ** Rosanna Costa ** Karin Ebensperger ** Ximena Rivas ** Vicente Alti ** Hugo Herrera ** Julio Isamit **

Sebastián Keitel Sebastián Keitel Bianchi (born February 14, 1973, in Santiago) is a Chilean ex- sprinter who competed mostly in the 200 metres. He was coached by renowned Chilean coach Pedro Soto Acuña. Biography Sebastián Keitel comes from an athletics fa ...

** Felipe Larraín ** Nicolás León ** Carlos Llancaqueo ** Pablo Ortúzar ** Ricardo Sande ** José Villagrán ** Rosita Díaz

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