Unidad por Chile
Unity for Chile Unidad por Chile | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | UpCh |
| Leader | Jeannette Jara |
| Spokesperson | Paulina Vodanovic |
| Founder | Gabriel Boric |
| Founded | 6 November 2022 |
| Headquarters | Santiago |
| Ideology | Progressivism[1] |
| Political position | Centre-left to left-wing |
| Senate | 19 / 50
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| Chamber of Deputies | 65 / 155
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| Regional Governors | 7 / 16
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| Regional councillors | 106 / 302
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| Mayors | 82 / 345
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| Councillors | 986 / 2,252
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Unidad por Chile (lit. 'Unity for Chile'), formerly known informally as the Government Alliance (Spanish: Alianza de Gobierno) is a Chilean coalition of politiсal parties that are part of the government of Gabriel Boric.[2] The coalition was formed on 6 November 2022 after a meeting called by the President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, held at the Palace of Cerro Castillo, where the presidents of the political parties, parliamentarians and authorities that are part of the government can summer.[3]
The coalition is made up of the member parties of the two coalitions that supported Boric's candidacy and entered his administration: Apruebo Dignidad and Democratic Socialism.[4] The alliance agreed to have a common and rotating spokesperson, the first spokeswoman for the coalition being the president of the Socialist Party, Paulina Vodanovic.
History
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In March 2021, the primary elections of the Apruebo Dignidad pact, a coalition made up of the Broad Front and Chile Digno, took place. The Broad Front candidate Gabriel Boric won the election, running as the sole candidate of Apruebo Dignidad in the first round of the presidential elections. As the result of this presidential election, he would participate in the runoff election.
After the defeat of the Christian Democrat candidate Yasna Provoste, the New Social Pact coalition formed that year for the elections, bringing together the parties from the Concertación and Nueva Mayoría. These parties had governed the country for 24 years previously. The New Social Pact supported the candidacy of Boric, the Apruebo Dignidad candidate, who won in the runoff.
After Boric's victory in the presidential elections, and given how the congress was composed after the parliamentary elections[5]—Apruebo Dignidad only managed to elect 37 of the 150 deputies and 5 of the 50 senators—Gabriel Boric included in the government the parties that made up the New Social Pact coalition, with the exception of the Christian Democratic Party. These parties would later adopt the nomination of Democratic Socialism.[citation needed]
The government of Gabriel Boric has been supported by these two political blocs (or “two souls”, as the local press has called them): Democratic Socialists and Apruebo Dignidad.[6] The difficult coexistence of both coalitions within the ruling party, added to the defeat of the option supported by the government in the plebiscite on 4 September. This gave rise to the political committee on 17 October 2022, calling an official conclave, with the purpose of analyzing the course that the government should take going forward.[7] The conclave took place on 6 November 2022 in the Presidential Palace of Cerro Castillo, where the leaders of the ruling parties met.[3] Since then, the coalition has met regularly to form an electoral and content committee,[8] and has replicated the first national conclave in various regions of the country.[9]
On 30 April 2025, the coalition was formalized under the name Unidad por Chile, to run in the primaries and presidential elections of that year.[10][11]
Composition
[edit]| Coalition | Party | Abbr. | President | Ideology | |||||||
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Democratic Socialism | 
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Party for Democracy Partido por la Democracia |
PPD | Jaime Quintana | Social democracy Third Way Progressivism | |||||
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Socialist Party of Chile Partido Socialista de Chile |
PS | Paulina Vodanovic | Social democracy Democratic socialism | |||||||
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Liberal Party of Chile Partido Liberal de Chile |
PL | Juan Carlos Urzúa | Social liberalism Progressivism | |||||||
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Radical Party of Chile Partido Radical de Chile |
PR | Leonardo Cubillos | Social liberalism Social democracy | |||||||
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Communist Party of Chile Partido Comunista de Chile |
PCCh | Guillermo Teillier | Communism | |||||||
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Social Green Regionalist Federation Federación Regionalista Verde Social |
FREVS | Flavia Torrealba | Regionalism Green politics | |||||||
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Humanist Action Acción Humanista |
AH | Tomás Hirsch | New Humanism Social ecology | |||||||
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Broad Front Frente Amplio |
FA | Gabriel Boric | Democratic socialism Progressivism Radical democracy | |||||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ https://www.ex-ante.cl/paulina-vodanovic-primera-vocera-de-la-alianza-de-gobierno-el-progresismo-debe-tener-una-vision-comun-pero-tambien-conversar-con-la-derecha/ Paulina Vodanovic, primera vocera de la “Alianza de Gobierno”: “El progresismo debe tener una visión común, pero también conversar con la derecha”
- ^ "Dos coaliciones bajo una alianza: Cónclave termina con "una agenda en común" y llamados de unidad en el oficialismo". Emol. 6 November 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ a b "Alianza de Gobierno y hoja de ruta: las definiciones del Cónclave oficialista en Cerro Castillo « Diario y Radio Universidad Chile". radio.uchile.cl (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-08.
- ^ "Cónclave oficialista culmina con acuerdo para formar "alianza de Gobierno" y comité de secretarios". Biobío Chile. 7 November 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ "Apruebo Dignidad descarta que integración de Nuevo Pacto Social afecte a programa de Boric". BioBioChile (in Spanish). 2022-01-22. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
En tanto, voces de la ex concertación afirmaron que la falta de mayorías en el Congreso fue el principal factor de incorporar a miembros del bloque.
- ^ Luna, Juan Pablo (2022). "Una promesa llamada Gabriel Boric". Nueva Sociedad (299). Buenos Aires: Nusso. ISSN 0251-3552. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ "Lo que hay tras el cónclave que agendó La Moneda con Apruebo Dignidad y el Socialismo Democrático". T13. 18 October 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ La Tercera (18 November 2022). "Oficialismo conforma comité electoral y de contenido para afianzar "alianza de gobierno"". Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ Ministerio del Interior de Chile (5 December 2022). "Gobiernos regionales reafirman la importancia de avanzar más rápido en las urgencias de la ciudadanía y poner foco en el trabajo en terreno". Retrieved 9 December 2022.
- ^ Concha, Lorena (2025-05-01). "Unidad por Chile: único pacto formalizado en primarias 2025". Servicio Electoral de Chile (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ^ ""Unidad por Chile": oficialismo inscribe pacto para las primarias presidenciales". radio.uchile.cl. 30 April 2025. Retrieved 30 June 2025.