Christian Democratic Party (Chile)
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Christian Democratic Party Partido Demócrata Cristiano | |
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Chamber of Deputies | 8 / 155 |
Senate | 3 / 43 |
Regional Boards | 36 / 278 |
Mayors | 46 / 345 |
Communal Councils | 315 / 2,224 |
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The Christian Democratic Party (
Customarily, the PDC backs specific initiatives in an effort to bridge
Except during the military dictatorship (1973–1990) when the congress was shut down the Christian Democrat Party was the largest party in parliament from 1965 to 2001.[12] In 2022 the party has faced a severe internal crisis, with many prominent politicians leaving it.
History
The origins of the party go back to the 1930s, when the Conservative Party split between traditionalist and social-Christian sectors. In 1935, the social-Christians split from the Conservative Party to form the Falange Nacional (National Phalanx), a more socially oriented and centrist group.[13]
The Falange Nacional showed their centrist policies by supporting leftist
In 1970,
Transition to democracy
During the first years of the return to democracy, the Christian Democrats enjoyed wide popular support. Presidents
For much of the 1990s and 2000s the party contained three main factions; "Guatones", "Chascones" and "Colorines" (lit. Fatsos, Disheveleds and Redheads). [14][15] The Colorines owed their name to the hair color of Adolfo Zaldívar and were the right-wing faction of the party.[14] The Chascones led by Gabriel Silber and Gabriel Ascencio were the left-wing faction and the Guatones owed their label for being "close to power" through the figures of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle and Patricio Aylwin, both of them Presidents of Chile.[14]
In recent years, the Christian Democrats have favored abortion in three cases (when a pregnancy threatens the mother's life, when the fetus has little chance of survival, and when the pregnancy is a result of rape), but not in any other instances, and opposes elective abortion.[16]
The Christian Democrats left the Nueva Mayoría coalition on 29 April 2017 and nominated then-party president Carolina Goic as their candidate for the 2017 presidential election. The Nueva Mayoria has struggled to remain united as differences have opened up within the coalition over approaches to a government reform drive, including changes to the labour code and attempted reform of Chile's strict abortion laws.[17] In 2020, all Christian Democrats senators voted in favour of same-sex marriage.
in 2020 the party gave its support for "Approve" in the
After the
After those elections the group renamed to New Social Pact to participate in the 2021 general election, PDC senator Yasna Provoste was chosen as the coalition's candidate, coming in 5th place with 11.6% of the vote. After she lost the first round the PDC supported Gabriel Boric for the second round, in which Boric won the election.
After Boric won the election, most of the New Social Pact parties supported joining Boric's government, on the other hand the Christian Democrat's president, Ximena Rincon, said that the party would be a "constructive opposition" and said that any member joining the government should have to resign to the party.[18] After this the PDC was excluded from the new coalition "Democratic Socialism".
2022 crisis
The official support of the party for the "Approve" option in the
Fuad Chahín, who was president of the party from 2018 to 2021, was suspended from the party in early November 2022.[25][26][27][28]
Presidents elected under Christian Democratic Party
- Eduardo Frei Montalva (1964–1970)
- Patricio Aylwin (1990–1994)
- Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1994–2000)
Presidential candidates
The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by the Christian Democratic Party. (Information gathered from the Archive of Chilean Elections).
- 1958: Eduardo Frei Montalva (lost)
- 1964: Eduardo Frei Montalva (won)
- 1970: Radomiro Tomic (lost)
- 1988 plebiscite: "No" (won)
- 1989: Patricio Aylwin(won)
- 1993: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle(won)
- 1999: Ricardo Lagos (won)
- 2005: Michelle Bachelet(won)
- 2009: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle(lost)
- 2013: Michelle Bachelet(won)
- 2017: Carolina Goic (lost) Second round support: Alejandro Guillier(lost)
- 2021: Yasna Provoste (lost) Second round support: Gabriel Boric Font(won)
Election results
Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Coalition | President |
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1961 | Narciso Irueta | 213,468 | 15.93% | 23 / 147
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N/A | Jorge Alessandri (Ind.) | |
1965 | Renán Fuentealba | 995,187 | 43.60% | 82 / 147
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+59 | Eduardo Frei (PDC) | |
1969 | Rafael Agustín Gumucio | 716,547 | 31.05% | 55 / 150
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−27 | Eduardo Frei Montalva (PDC) | |
1973 | Renán Fuentealba | 1,055,120 | 29.07% | 50 / 150
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−5 | Confederation of Democracy | Salvador Allende (PS) |
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1989 | Andrés Zaldívar | 1,766,347 | 25.99% | 38 / 120
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N/A | Concertación | Patricio Aylwin (PDC) |
1993 | Gutenberg Martínez | 1,827,373 | 27.12% | 37 / 120
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−1 | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (PDC) | |
1997 | Enrique Krauss | 1,331,745 | 22.98% | 38 / 120
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+1 | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (PDC) | |
2001 | Patricio Aylwin | 1,162,210 | 18.92% | 23 / 120
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−15 | Ricardo Lagos (PPD) | |
2005
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Adolfo Zaldívar | 1,354,631 | 20.78% | 20 / 120
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−3 | Michelle Bachelet (PS) | |
2009
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Juan Carlos Latorre | 931,789 | 14.24% | 19 / 120
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−1 | Sebastián Piñera (RN) | |
2013 | Ignacio Walker | 965,364 | 15.56% | 22 / 120
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+3 | New Majority | Michelle Bachelet (PS) |
2017 | Carolina Goic | 616,550 | 10.28% | 14 / 155
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−8 | Democratic Convergence | Sebastian Piñera (Ind.) |
2021 | Yasna Provoste | 264,985 | 4.19% | 8 / 155
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−6 | New Social Pact | Gabriel Boric (CS) |
References
- ^ Menú. "Estadísticas de afiliados a partidos políticos – Servicio Electoral de Chile". Servel.cl. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
- ^ a b Pablo Garrido González (December 2012). "Revolución en Libertad, Concepto y programa político de la Democracia cristiana chilena" (PDF). Programa de Historia de Las Ideas Políticas en Chile. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
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- ^ Sol Serrano (2005). "Conservadurismo y Democracia Cristiana" (PDF). Centro de Estudios Miguel Enríquez. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- ^ "20 cosas que hay que saber sobre Yasna Provoste, quien hoy lanzó su candidatura presidencial | Ex-Ante". Ex-Ante (in Spanish). 2021-04-24. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
- ^ Boyd, Sebastian (15 December 2017). "How Chile's Shifting Politics Baffled Markets". Bloomberg.com.
- ^ Slattery, Gram (11 March 2017). "Chile Christian Democrats pick senator for crowded presidential race". Reuters.
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- ^ "CIA Paid Chilean Pols". CBS News. 13 November 2000.
- ^ Frei, Eduardo (October 26, 2014). "Eduardo Frei: 'Conozco a la DC y no es un partido de derecha sino que de centroizquierda'" [Eduardo Frei: 'I know the DC and it is not a right-wing party but a center-left party']. El Día (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 26, 2014.
- ^ "Partido Demócrata Cristiano (1957-2004)". Memoria Chilena (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ISBN 9780367319427.
- ^ a b c Morgado, José (2013-02-27). "Último adiós a los "colorines"". 24horas.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-10-01.
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- ^ C, David Aguayo (20 May 2017). "Carolina Goic por aborto: 'No es un tema para evaluar el voto con la calculadora'" [Carolina Goic for abortion: 'It is not an issue to evaluate the vote with the calculator']. La Tercera (in Spanish).
- ^ "Chile's governing coalition splits ahead of November election". Reuters. 30 April 2017.
- ^ Cornejo, Claudia (2021-12-13). "Rincón por rol de la DC en eventual gobierno de Boric: recalca que serán oposición y que si algún militante es llamado a participar "correspondería" que deje el partido". La Tercera. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
- ^ Muñoz, José; Saéz, Diego (2022-10-10). "Democracia Cristiana discute pasos a seguir para revertir crisis interna del partido". Radio Bío-Bío (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ ""Movimiento Amarillos por Chile" firma documento para empezar el proceso de conformación del partido". 23 September 2022.
- ^ "Movimiento "Amarillos x Chile" y "Una que nos Una" lanzan plataforma "Centroizquierda x el Rechazo". CNN Chile. July 30, 2022.
- ^ Paranhos, Simona (2022-11-02). ""Demócratas": lanzan nuevo colectivo liderado por Ximena Rincón, Matías Walker y Carlos Maldonado". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ Faunes, Macarena (2022-10-28). "Ximena Rincón confirma creación de nuevo partido: "Vamos a hacer anuncios la próxima semana"". T13 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-02.
- ^ "Gobernador Orrego: "Después de 33 años en el partido Demócrata Cristiano, he decidido renunciar a mi militancia"". 24horas.cl (in Spanish). 2022-10-10. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ "Tribunal Supremo de la DC suspende militancia a Fuad Chahin por apoyar el Rechazo y profundiza quiebre en el partido". Ex-Ante (in Spanish). 2022-11-03. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
- ^ "Chahín renunció a la presidencia DC durante junta nacional que se resiste a restarse de las primarias". Radio Cooperativa. 18 May 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ "Fuad Chahín tras renunciar a la presidencia de la DC: "He dado muestras de que nunca me he aferrado a los cargos"". CNN Chile. 19 May 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ "Fuad Chahín renunció a la presidencia de la DC tras cuestionamientos por manejo del partido". CNN Chile (in Spanish). 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
Further reading
- Luna, Juan Pablo; Monestier, Felipe; Rosenblatt, Fernando (2014). Religious parties in Chile: The Christian Democratic Party and the Independent Democratic Union. Routledge. pp. 119–137.
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External links
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