The Radical Party of Chile (), is a classical radical political party in Chile. The party has also been referred to as liberal,

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, and

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. The party is a member of

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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

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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, respectively. In

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, it won five congress seats and one senate seat.

Executive board

The current party executive assumed in August 2018.

Leaders of the PR (1994–present)

Election results

Due to its membership in the Concert of Parties for Democracy, the party has endorsed the candidates of other parties on several occasions.

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are held using a

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, the results of which are displayed below.

Presidential elections

References

; Attribution *

External links

Official website
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