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Senator Of Chile
The National Congress of Chile () is the legislative branch of the Republic of Chile. According to the current Constitution (Chilean Constitution of 1980), it is a bicameral organ made up of a Chamber of Deputies and a Senate. Established by law No. 18678, the city of Valparaíso is its official headquarters. Chile's congress is the oldest operational in Latin America and one of the oldest in Ibero-America. The First Chilean National Congress was founded on July 4, 1811, to decide the best kind of government for the Kingdom of Chile during the captivity of King Ferdinand VII in the hands of Napoleon. The Chamber of Deputies is constituted by 155 members called deputies or ''diputados'' in Spanish and they are elected for a four-years period. Re-election is possible for a maximum of two times, which means that the deputy may remain in the post for up to 12 years. The country has 28 electoral districts and each one is represented by two deputies. The Senate is formed by 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LVI Legislative Period Of The Chilean Congress
The LVI legislative period of the Chilean Congress is sitting from 11 March 2022 to 10 March 2026. It was elected at the 2021 Chilean general election. Composition Senate Deputies List of Deputies References {{Reflist Legislative periods of Chile Lists of current national legislators, Chile 2022 establishments in Chile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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), 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 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valparaíso
Valparaíso () is a major city, Communes of Chile, commune, Port, seaport, and naval base facility in the Valparaíso Region of Chile. Valparaíso was originally named after Valparaíso de Arriba, in Castilla–La Mancha, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. Greater Valparaíso is the second-most populous Metropolitan area, metro area in the country. Valparaiso is the second-largest city in the metro area (behind Viña del Mar). It is located about northwest of Santiago, by road, and is one of the Pacific Ocean's most important seaports. Valparaíso is the Capital city, capital of Chile's second most-populated administrative region and has been the Chilean Navy headquarters since 1817, as well as being the seat of the National Congress of Chile since 1990. Valparaíso played an important geopolitical role in the second half of the 19th century when it served as a major stopover for ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Straits of Magellan. The area experienced r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amarillos Por Chile
Amarillos por Chile (), sometimes written Amarillos x Chile (AxCh), is a political movement and party in Chile which was established with the goal to stop the Constitutional Convention. It was founded in 2022 by Cristián Warnken and brings together prominent personalities in the country, including businessmen, former parliamentarians, and former politicians from the defunct Concertación coalition, particularly from the Party for Democracy (PPD) and Christian Democratic Party (PDC). The movement emerged as a response to certain proposals of the Constitutional Convention, which it viewed as "refoundational". Once established as a party, ''Amarillos'' reunited political figures from centre-left and centre-right ―like Mario Waissbluth and Jaime Mañalich―, which installed this organization as a big-tent party focused in the experience of the Concertación (coalition of the Chilean post-dictatorial period) (1988−2013). History The movement was born out of columns a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of The People (Chile)
The Party of the People (, PDG) is a Chilean political party, characterized as a centre-right to right-wing and populist. It was created at the end of 2019, being legalized by the Electoral Service on July 26, 2021. It is led by 2013 and 2021 presidential candidate Franco Parisi, and by the founder of "Felices y Forrados" Gino Lorenzini. At the time of its legalization in July 2021, the party had about 43,000 members, the second largest number of members of any party in Chile after the Communist Party. Among its adherents is the conventional constituent-elect Rodrigo Logan of district 9. History It was founded on December 13, 2019, domiciled in the city of Santiago. Its founders are economists Franco Parisi (who was an independent candidate in the 2013 presidential election) and Gino Lorenzini, and many of its adherents were members of the presidential command of Parisi called "The Power of the People-Social Movement Franco Parisi". Lorenzini, on the other hand, was the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernán Palma
Luis Hugo Hernán Palma Pérez (born November 3, 1958) is a Chilean surgeon and politician, founding member of the Humanist Party of Chile. He is a deputy for the period 2022-2026, after being elected in the 2021 Chilean parliamentary elections. Biography Hernán Palma grew up in the town of San Joaquín, in the commune of Pedro Aguirre Cerda. He studied medicine at the University of Chile, graduating in 1984 as a surgeon. He has trained in the rehabilitation of people, especially young people with problematic substance use. During the eighties, he moved to Puente Alto, a commune where he has resided since then. There he was one of the founding members of the Humanist Party, becoming a friend of Laura Rodríguez. He carried out work as an activist in communal soup kitchens, workers' ministry, camps, visiting political prisoners, supporting human rights victims and cooperating in the management of the 1988 plebiscite. Subsequently, he has practiced his profession for more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humanist Action
Humanist Action () is a Chilean left-wing political party, founded in 2020 by former militants of the Humanist Party. Its leader is Tomás Hirsch, who was a presidential candidate in 1999 and 2005. The movement was formed after the resignation of 300 members of the Humanist Party, who rejected the role of deputy Pamela Jiles in the party. Humanist Action is part of the Chile Digno coalition and Apruebo Dignidad. In the 2021 elections they supported the presidential candidate Gabriel Boric. Presidential candidates The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by the Humanist Action. (Information gathered from thArchive of Chilean Elections. *2021: Gabriel Boric Gabriel Boric Font (; born 11 February 1986) is a Chilean politician and the President of Chile since 2022. He previously served two four-year terms as a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, Chamber of Deputies. Boric first gained prom ... (won) References External links Humanist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical Party Of Chile (2018)
The Radical Party of Chile (), is a classical radical political party in Chile. The party has also been referred to as liberal, social-liberal, and social-democratic. The party is a member of Socialist International and participant in the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean. History The party was founded as the Social Democrat Radical Party () on 18 August 1994 out of a union between the Radical Party and the Social Democracy Party, both of which had received poor results in the parliamentary elections. The party re-adopted its historic name in 2018. The party supported Ricardo Lagos in the 1999–2000 presidential elections, who won 48.0% in the first round and was elected with 51.3% in the second round. At the 2001 legislative elections, the party won as part of the Concertación six out of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and no seats in the Senate. This changed at the 2005 legislative elections to seven and one, resp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Chile (2013)
The Liberal Party of Chile () is a social-liberal political party in Chile, founded 26 January 2013 in Santiago, Chile. The main figure of the party is the deputy Vlado Mirosevic. Ideology The Liberal Party of Chile states itself to be a social-liberal party, promoting egalitarian liberalism and progressivism. Chilean social liberalism In Chile, the word liberal is, after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, often synonymous with technocracy, classic liberalism and economic liberalism. The Liberal Party of Chile is based on social liberalism and thus opposes the neoliberalism that still influences many Chilean institutions. Following the tradition of the first liberals of the 19th century, the Liberal Party of Chile intends to combine its economic policy with a strong social policy. Platform The Liberal Party of Chile supports same-sex marriage, the legalisation of marijuana, the legalisation of abortion and the legalisation of euthanasia. Further, they support decentr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (Chile, 2019)
The Republican Party (; PLR) is a right-wing populist and conservative political party in Chile. Its founder and former leader is Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast. 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 meeting of (what at that time was) the new movement. Some time after, on 9 April, the movement was presented at the Omnium Hall in Las Condes, and it was named "Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democrats (Chile)
The Democrats (; D) 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. See also List of politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Social Party (Chile)
The Christian Social Party (PSC; ) is a Chilean political party founded in September 2022. It was formed by independent leaders and ex-militants of the defunct Christian Conservative Party (PCC). History The community arose after the dissolution of the PCC, a group that during the 2021 parliamentary elections achieved the election of Sara Concha as deputy for the Ñuble Region under the Christian Social Front pact. Among its founders were Luciano Silva, a former National Renewal (RN) conventioneer, and Antaris Varela, who presided over the PCC. Ángel Roa served as party leader from September 2022 to May 2023. Like its predecessor, the PSC is linked to evangelical and conservative church groups. In November 2022, the community began its formation and constitution process before the Electoral Service (Servel). During that same month, the incorporation of Deputy Concha was confirmed, who until then was independent and a member of the RN bench in the Chamber of Deputies Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
