Juntos Podemos Más por Chile (

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literal: ''Together we can do more for Chile'', ''Podemos'' is an

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of ''Po''der ''Demo''crático ''S''ocial, Spanish for ''Social Democratic Power'') was a political coalition created in 2003, consisting of the

Communist Party of Chile The Communist Party of Chile ( es, Partido Comunista de Chile, ) is a communist party in Chile. It was founded in 1912 as the Socialist Workers' Party () and adopted its current name in 1922. The party established a youth wing, the Communist Youth ...

, the

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, the

Christian Left Party of Chile The Citizen Left Party of Chile ( es, Partido Izquierda Ciudadana de Chile, IC), known until 2013 as Christian Left Party of Chile ( es, Partido Izquierda Cristiana de Chile, same acronym) was a Chilean left-wing political party. Founded in 1971 ...

, and several other smaller left-wing organizations. The Coalition presented at first five candidates (including the sociologist

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for the Communist Party) for the 2005 presidential election, but then finally agreed on the Humanist Party candidate,

Tomás Hirsch Tomás René Hirsch Goldschmidt (born 19 July 1956) is a leftist Chilean politician and businessman. He was the Together We Can Do More pact candidate for the 2005 Chilean presidential election, winning 5.4% of the vote. Biography Hirsch wa ...

. He obtained 5.4% of the vote (375,048 votes). The Coalition divided itself during the runoff vote, some conditionally voting for left-of-center candidate

Michelle Bachelet Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (; born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022. She previously served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 201 ...

and others proposing

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s. In the 2005 parliamentary election, the pact obtained 7.38% of the vote in the lower chamber election, and 5.98% in the Senate election, but did not win seats in either chamber. Members of the coalition blame this upon the binomial system, which privileges the two largest coalitions: ''

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 ...

'' and the

Alliance for Chile The Alliance ( es, Alianza), previously known as Alliance for Chile ( es, Alianza por Chile), was a coalition of centre-right to right-wing Chilean political parties. The Alliance was replaced between 2009 and 2012 by the Coalition for Change. ...

. For the 2009 parliamentary election, the coalition joined the Concertación list and won three seats in the lower chamber, all from the Communist Party. At the concurrent

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, Juntos Podemos supported the candidacy of former

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member

Jorge Arrate Jorge Félix Arrate Mac Niven (born May 1, 1941 in Santiago) is a Chilean lawyer, economist, writer and politician. He has been Minister of State in the governments of Chilean presidents Salvador Allende (1970–1973), Patricio Aylwin (1990– ...

as President, who won 6.2% of the vote. The Humanist Party left the coalition and supported independent candidate

Marco Enríquez-Ominami Marco Antonio Enríquez-Ominami Gumucio (born 12 June 1973) is a Chilean- French, filmmaker, politician, and perennial candidate. From 2006 to 2010 he was a Socialist Party deputy in Chile's lower chamber. In 2009 he quit the party and ran for P ...

Composition

The coalition was made up of more than 50 parties and organisations, including the Communist Party (PCCh), the Humanist Party (PH) (until 2009), ''

Izquierda Cristiana The Citizen Left Party of Chile ( es, Partido Izquierda Ciudadana de Chile, IC), known until 2013 as Christian Left Party of Chile ( es, Partido Izquierda Cristiana de Chile, same acronym) was a Chilean left-wing political party. Founded in 1971 ...

'' (Christian Left),

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, the MPMR (''Movimiento Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez''), the '' Bloque por el Socialismo'' (BS) — which itself gathers three parties: ''

Izquierda Socialista Socialist Left ( es, Izquierda Socialista; IS), officially registered as the Left for a Socialist Option (''Izquierda por una Opción Socialista''), is a Trotskyist political party in Argentina. It was founded in 2006 as a split from the Sociali ...

'' (Socialist Left), the Movimiento Por el Socialismo (MPS) and the '' Partido Alternativa Socialista'' (PAS) — '' Identidad Rodriguista'' (IR), '' Movimiento Fuerza Ciudadana'' (FC), '' Cambio Democrático'', ''

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'' (PRCh), ''Revolución Democratizadora'' (RD), '' Generación 80'' (G-80), '' Partido de los Trabajadores'' (PT) and the '' Juventudes Comunistas de Chile''.

External links

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