The party País was a leftist political party in Chile founded by
Alejandro Navarro, a Senator formerly a member of the
MAS Region party, supporting his candidacy for President in 2017.
Pais Party was presented in
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...
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
Alejandro Navarro.
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 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
Alejandro Navarro 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
Antofagasta () is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago. It is the capital of Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region. According to the 2015 census, the city has a population of 402,669.
After the Spanish American wars ...
,
Maule,
Biobío and
Araucanía.
After their first General Assembly on 6 August 2017,
Alejandro Navarro´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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2017
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: Alejandro Navarro (lost)
References
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