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Senate Of Chile
The Senate of the Republic of Chile is the upper house of Chile's bicameral National Congress, as established in the current Constitution of Chile. Composition According to the present Constitution of Chile, the Senate is composed of forty-three directly elected senators, chosen by universal popular suffrage vote in 16 senatorial circumscriptions. These serve eight-year terms, with half of them being replaced every fourth year. They must be eligible to vote, have completed secondary school, or its equivalent, and be at least 35 years old. The Senate meets at the new National Congress building located in the port city of Valparaíso that replaced the old National Congress building located in downtown Santiago, the nation's capital. Abolition of the unelected Amendments to the Constitution, approved by a joint session of Congress on August 16, 2005, eliminated non-directly elected senators from March 11, 2006, the day 20 newly elected senators were sworn in, leaving the tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Renewal (Chile)
National Renewal ( es, Renovación Nacional, RN) is a liberal conservative political party in Chile. It is a member of Chile Vamos, a center-right to right-wing 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 (''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 Pino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rojo Edwards
José Manuel Rojo Edwards Silva (born 15 July 1977) is a Chilean politician and civil engineer. Rojo Edwards entered into the center-right party National Renewal in 2009. In december of that year he was elected as deputy for the Araucanía Region for the period of 2010-2014. He was reelected in 2013. On September 28, 2016, he announced his resignation from militancy in National Renewal. He tried to be senator in the 2017 election for the Araucanía Region, but did not get enough votes. In 2019 he entered into the Republican Party. In 2021 Chilean general election, Rojo Edwards supported José Antonio Kast's candidacy, and he ran again to be senator for the Santiago Metropolitan Region, obtaining the third mayority thus being a senator for the Republican Party. In January 2022, Edwards became the president of the Republican Party Republican Party is a name used by many political parties around the world, though the term most commonly refers to the United States' Republican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (Chile, 2019)
The Republican Party ( es, Partido Republicano; PLR) is a right-wing populist and conservative political party in Chile. Its founder and current leader is Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast. The Republican Party is one of two parties in the Christian Social Front coalition, along with the smaller Christian Conservative Party. History Background José Antonio Kast, the founder of the party, was a deputy for 16 years, and a member of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) for 20 years. In 2017 he ran for president, finishing in fourth place with nearly 8% of the vote. Kast became disillusioned with UDI and resigned in protest, believing that the party criticized former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet too often. With the base of support he obtained with the election, he decided to found a political movement. Foundation The Republican Party began as the Chilean manifestation of the conservative wave in Latin America. On 3 March 2018, Kast held the first mee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Social Front
The Christian Social Front ( es, Frente Social Cristiano, FSC) was a Chilean far-right electoral coalition formally created on August 6, 2021 between the Republican Party and the Christian Conservative Party for the 2021 general elections. History Background On January 11, 2021, the Republican Party, together with Chile Vamos, registered a list called "Vamos por Chile" for the Constitutional Convention election, thus being the only right-wing list versus several left-wing lists. This partnership has generated an impact within the same coalition, especially the candidate to conventional district 10 Teresa Marinovic (entering as a separate quota of National Renewal), which according to people of National Renewal and Political Evolution, his name did not appear in any of the thirteen candidates that the Republican Party filed in the general councils of each group. The controversy deepened when his partner list Sylvia Eyzaguirre presented his resignation to his candidacy as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broad Front (Chile)
The Broad Front ( es, Frente Amplio, FA) is a Chilean political coalition founded in early 2017, composed of left-wing parties and movements. Its first electoral contest was the 2017 Chilean general election, where their presidential candidate Beatriz Sánchez came third with 20% of the vote in the first round of election (she just missed getting to the second-round run-off by 3%). The Broad Front also expanded their electoral representation to 20 deputies (out of 155), 1 senator (out of 43) and 21 out of 278 Regional Councillors, thus consolidating the movement as the 'third force' in Chilean politics. Platform and ideology The Broad Front's Declaration of Principles states five central aims as their reasons for political action: # Promote an inclusive country, that respects the environment and safeguard social rights (such as education and healthcare). # Move away from neoliberal economic policies and towards a socialist model of development. # Create an alternative to challen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chile Digno
(Spanish for "Worthy Chile") is a Chilean political coalition of left-wing parties with a Marxist–Leninist, ecologist and regionalist ideology. The political alliance was created under the name ''Unity for Change'' after the victory of the conservative coalition ''Chile Vamos'' in the 2017 general election. Composition The coalition consisted of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh), a former party of the New Majority. In addition, Chile Digno also included the Progressive Party and the Social Green Regionalist Federation. The Progressive Party left the coalition in 2020. See also * List of political parties in Chile * New Majority (Chile) * ''Chile Vamos (Spanish for "Let’s go Chile”) is a centre-right to right-wing political coalition of three political parties in Chile. The coalition was created on 29 January 2015 by the general secretaries of the Independent Democrat Union (UDI), Nationa ...'' * Progressive Convergence * Broad Front References {{Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Social Pact
New Social Pact ( es, Nuevo Pacto Social; NPS) was a Chilean centre to centre-left 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), Radical (PR), Socialist (PS), Christian Democratic (PDC), Citizens (CIU), Liberal (PL) and the platforms New Deal 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 Democratic Socialism alliance. History The parties For Democracy, Radical, Socialist, Christian Democrats and Citizens formed together with the Progressive Party (PRO) and in alliance with the Liberal Party and the political platform New Deal the electoral pact called Constituent Unity, an instance that is still in force for the elections regional councilors by 2021. In the case of the parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evópoli
Political Evolution (), also known in Spanish by its shorthand Evópoli, is a Chilean centre-right political party, founded in 2012. The party defines itself as a liberal platform for the people who look for a "modern centre-right who proposes as the central axis of their proposal the appreciation of diversity, the emphasis on encouraging local communities and the pursuit of social justice". Sociologists like Stéphanie Alenda have described to Evópoli as a postmaterial party, according the categories of the sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset. History Felipe Kast, Luciano Cruz-Coke, Harald Beyer and Juan Sebastián Montes founded the movement on 12 December 2012. Evópoli agreed to participate in the primary parliamentary elections of National Renewal in 2013. Of the three candidates presented to the primaries, Eduardo Cuevas was the winner in the 19th district (Independencia and Recoleta). Evópoli participated in the parliamentary elections with five candidates for parliamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chile Podemos Más
(Spanish for "Let’s go Chile”) is a centre-right to right-wing political coalition of three political parties in Chile. The coalition was created on 29 January 2015 by the general secretaries of the Independent Democrat Union (UDI), National Renewal (RN), Democratic Independent Regionalist Party (PRI) and Political Evolution (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 Alliance under the name ''Coalition for Freedom''. Negotiations were also held with the Independent Regionalist Party 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 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democrats (Chile)
Democrats ( es, Demócratas) is a Chilean political party founded in 2022 by former militants of the Christian Democratic Party, Party for Democracy and Radical Party, all former members from the defunct Concertación coalition. History Its founders were senators Ximena Rincón and Matías Walker, as well as former presidential candidate Carlos Maldonado Curti. Most party members supported the «Reject» option in the 2022 constitutional plebiscite forming the Center-left for Reject movement (''Centroizquerda por el Rechazo''). Democrats began their legalization procedures on November 4, 2022. Ideology The movement defined itself as "centrist", although it acknowledged that it has center-left and center-right tendencies. Democrats identified itself as a Christian democratic, humanist, pluralist, reformist, non-denominational, and regionalist party. They also see themselves as defenders of the legacy of the defunct Concertación coalition. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democratic Party (Chile)
The Christian Democratic Party ( es, Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC) is a Christian democratic political party in Chile. There have been three Christian Democrat presidents in the past, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Patricio Aylwin, and Eduardo Frei Montalva. Customarily, the PDC backs specific initiatives in an effort to bridge socialism and laissez-faire capitalism. This economic system has been called "social capitalism" and is heavily influenced by Catholic social teaching or, more generally, Christian ethics. In addition to this objective, the PDC also supports a strong national government while remaining more conservative on social issues. However, after Pinochet's military regime ended the PDC embraced more classical economic policies compared to before the dictatorship. The current Secretary-General of the PDC is Gonzalo Duarte. In their latest "Ideological Congress", the Christian Democrats criticized Chile's current economic system and called for a shift toward a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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