The party País was a leftist political party in Chile founded by

Alejandro Navarro Alejandro Navarro Brain (born 20 November 1958) is a Chilean politician who has served as a member of Parliament for the Bío-Bío Region since 1994. First as Deputy and since 2006 as Senator, in 2009 founded the Broad Social Movement (MAS i ...

, a Senator formerly a member of the

MAS Region The MAS Region ( es, MAS Región), known until 2014 as Broad Social Movement ( es, Movimiento Amplio Social, MAS) was a Chilean left-wing political party founded by Alejandro Navarro in 2008. The party was created as a political movement in 2008, ...

party, supporting his candidacy for President in 2017. Pais Party was presented in

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on 3 September 2016; on the 10th of the same month it was founded in the city of Concepción. One of its founders was Chilean senator

. Among the party's proposals was the elimination of the Chilean pensions system sistema de AFP as well as to achieve free education at all levels. It was part of the

All Over Chile All Over Chile ( ''Spanish'': Por Todo Chile) was a Chilean political coalition that held one senator and one deputy in the LV legislative period of the Chilean Congress. It brought together the Progressive Party and País for the 2017 Chilean ge ...

alliance. On 22 May 2017, the party delivered 8,500 signatures of new members from six different regions to the Central Electoral Board Servicio Electoral in order to legalise the party on those areas; at the same time, it was announced that

would run in the presidential race. Because of some issues with one of the regions, the party was finally legalised in 5 zones: Región de Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Maule, Biobío and Araucanía. After their first General Assembly on 6 August 2017,

´s presidential candidacy was confirmed and legalised and the candidates for Parliament and Local Governments were announced. The new leadership of the party was also ratified.

Presidential candidates

The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by the País Party. (Information gathered from th
Archive of Chilean Elections
. *

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: Alejandro Navarro (lost)

References

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