National Renewal ( es, Renovación Nacional, RN) is a
liberal conservative political party in
Chile
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. It is a member of
Chile Vamos, a
center-right
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to
right-wing
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coalition.
Sebastián Piñera, the former President of Chile, is a member of the party.
History
National Renewal was formed on 29 April 1987 when three rightist organizations – the
National Union Movement (''Movimiento de Unión Nacional'', MUN), the
National Labour Front
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(''Frente Nacional del Trabajo'', FNT), and the
Independent Democratic Union Movement (''Movimiento'' ''Unión Demócrata Independiente'', UDI) – joined in preparation for the
1988 Plebiscite that would determine the continuity or not of rule of
Augusto Pinochet who had been in power since the coup of 1973. The UDI soon broke away to run as a separate party due to its strong support for the plebiscite and a Pinochet candidacy, while the remaining National Renewal party indicated its preference for an open election or a candidate other than Pinochet. However, once Pinochet was proclaimed candidate, the overwhelming majority of National Renewal supported him.
The party was founded on 29 April with 351 founding members. In this way, National Renewal was the first political party to form in Chile after the lifting on the ban of political parties that had been established after the coup; by December of that year, 61,167 members, led by
Andrés Allamand, had joined. The principal idea that the party proclaimed was to generate an environment of calm during the return of democracy.
The party supported UDI candidate
Joaquín Lavín as the sole Alliance candidate in the
1999/2000 presidential elections, who went on to obtain 47.5% of the votes in the first round, but was subsequently defeated in the second round by
Ricardo Lagos.
During early 2005, the party initially supported Lavín to again run as the sole candidate of the Alliance in the
presidential election
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Elections by country
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of that year. However, in face of Lavín's declining opinion poll numbers,
Sebastián Piñera announced his candidacy as the National Renewal candidate thus ensuring that the Alliance have two candidates for the election. In the first round on 11 December, Piñera obtained 25.4% of the vote, which was enough to send him to the run-off on 15 January 2006 with
Michelle Bachelet. With 46.5% of the vote, Piñera was defeated by Bachelet.
In the
legislative
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Laws enacted by legislatures are usually known ...
elections
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, also on 11 December 2005, the party won, as part of the
Alliance for Chile
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, 20 out of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and currently holds 7 out of 38 seats in the Senate.
In the
parliamentary elections
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, also on 13 December 2009, the party gains, as part of the
Coalition for Change, 18 out of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile and currently has 8 out of 38 seats in the Senate of Chile.
In the
2010 presidential election, Sebastián Piñera was elected
president of Chile
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.
In 2013,
Andrés Allamand was presidential precandidate for primary elections, the National Renewal party supported the presidential candidacy of
Evelyn Matthei for the
presidential election
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Albania
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, that lost in second round with the 37% of the votes.
In January 2014, three deputies (Karla Rubilar, Pedro Browne and Joaquín Godoy) and one senator (Lily Pérez) resigned to membership in the party and launched a political movement called "
Amplitude
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" (''Amplitud''), that aimed to be a new political party inside the Alliance. In the internal elections of 2014 the party, the deputy Cristián Monckeberg was elected president of the party. On 2 August 2014, National Renewal debuts its new logo with a blue and red star gradient colours. In August 2014 the deputy
Gaspar Rivas left the party.
On 22 November 2014, on a Doctrinal Council held in
Pucón, National Renewal drafted a new statement of principles where they were eliminated references to the
coup d'état of 11 September 1973.
On 4 October 2015, National Renewal formed with the
Independent Democratic Union
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(UDI),
Political Evolution (Evópoli) and the
Independent Regionalist Party (PRI) the new centre-right coalition called
Chile Vamos.
In July 2016, the Senator of National Renewal
Manuel José Ossandón left the party to form his presidential candidacy in 2017. The National Renewal party, in 2017, accorded support the presidential candidacy of Sebastián Piñera within UDI and PRI to
primary elections of the centre-right coalition Chile Vamos.
In the parliamentary elections of 2017, National Renewal obtained 36 seats in the Chamber of Deputies with 17.80% of the votes and 8 seats in the Senate with 20.98% of the votes, thus becoming the most voted party in these elections and displacing its coalition partner, the Independent Democratic Union.
On 11 March 2018, for the second government of Sebastián Piñera, National Renewal has 5 Ministers, 8 Undersecretaries, 5 regional Intendants and 24 provincial Governors.
Presidents of National Renewal
National Renewal has nine party presidents in its history:
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Ricardo Rivadeneira (1987)
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Sergio Onofre Jarpa
Sergio Onofre Jarpa Reyes (8 March 1921 – 19 April 2020) was a Chilean politician who served as a member of the cabinet during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Biography
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(1987–1990)
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Andrés Allamand (1990–1997)
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Alberto Espina
Alberto Miguel Espina Otero (born 4 December 1956) is a Chilean lawyer and politician.
He was Minister of Defense in the second government of the President Sebastián Piñera (2018–2022).
Biography
He is the son of Alberto Espina Barros a ...
(1997–1999)
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Alberto Cardemil (1999–2001)
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Sebastián Piñera (2001–2004)
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Sergio Diez (2004–2006)
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Carlos Larraín (2006–2014)
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Cristián Monckeberg (2014–2018)
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Mario Desbordes
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Desbordes previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deput ...
(2018–2021)
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Francisco Chahuán (2021–)
Electoral history
Presidential elections
The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by the National Renewal. (Information gathered from th
Archive of Chilean Elections.
Congress election
Party logos
File:Logo del Partido político Renovación Nacional (RN), Chile.svg, Emblem used 1987–2001, 2002–2005, and 2012–2014.
File:Renovacion Nacional 2001.png, Emblem used 2001–2002.
File:Renovacion Nacional 2005.png, Emblem used 2005–2009.
File:Renovacion nacional.svg, Emblem used 2009–2012.
File:Renovacion Nacional 2014.svg, Emblem used since 2014.
See also
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Alliance (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. ...
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Chile Vamos
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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 wit ...
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Sergio Onofre Jarpa
Sergio Onofre Jarpa Reyes (8 March 1921 – 19 April 2020) was a Chilean politician who served as a member of the cabinet during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Biography
Coming from a rural background, he studied agriculture a ...
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Andrés Allamand
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Sebastián Piñera
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Carlos Larraín
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Manuel José Ossandón
References
External links
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1987 establishments in Chile
Conservative parties in Chile
International Democrat Union member parties
Liberal conservative parties
Neoliberal parties
Political parties established in 1987
Political parties in Chile