New Social Pact ( es, Nuevo Pacto Social; NPS) was a Chilean

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political coalition established on 23 August 2021 in order to participate in the presidential and parliamentary elections of that year. This pact is made up of the parties for Democracy (PPD),

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(PR),

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(PS),

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(PDC),

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(CIU),

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(PL) and the platforms

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and New Chile. After the 2021 election the PDC left the coalition due to conflicting views on joining Gabriel Boric's government, after which the coalition disbanded and most parties went on to form the

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alliance.

History

The parties For Democracy, Radical, Socialist, Christian Democrats and Citizens formed together with the

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(PRO) and in alliance with the

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and the political platform New Deal the electoral pact called

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, an instance that is still in force for the elections regional councilors by 2021. In the case of the parliamentary elections, by not reaching an agreement and after Marco Enríquez-Ominami's decision to stand for the presidential election not having participated in the citizen consultation process carried out that same year in which

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competed (PDC),

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(PS) and Carlos Maldonado (PR) to define the sole presidential candidacy of the coalition, relations with the Progressive Party were broken and it was decided to register the list of candidates for Congress under the new name of «New Social Pact».

Citizen consultation of the Constituent Unity

Two days before the registration of candidacies for the presidential, parliamentary and regional councilor elections,

is chosen as the candidate of the pact. Provoste triumphed in the citizen consultation of the Constituent Unity with 60.8% of the preferences.

Dissolution

The New Social Pact

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ceased to exist when the PDC was not summoned at the end of 2021 to the parliamentary coordination of the PS-PPD-PR-PL-NT, a group that since December 2021 has been called "

" and which was called to be part of the future government of

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. On the other hand, the

party lost its registration in the Electoral Service. On 21 January 2022, the head of the committee of senators of the Christian Democratic Party, Francisco Huenchumilla, in a public statement signaled the end of the historical cycle of his party's alliance with the Socialists. On 25 January 2022, the former minister, former senator and former president of the PDC,

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, argued that the PS-DC axis no longer exists and that as a party they must assume themselves as a minority that will do politics from the opposition.

Composition

Also members of the coalition are the

and New Chile political movements; the latter announced its entry into the coalition on 8 November 2021.

References

{{Reflist Defunct political party alliances in Chile Political parties established in 2021