Citizens (Chilean political party)
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Citizens
Ciudadanos |
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| President | Andrés Velasco Brañes |
| Founded | 7 October 2013 |
| Headquarters | Monseñor Muller Nº 15, Depto. 325, Providencia, Santiago, Chile |
| Youth wing | Juventud Ciudadanos |
| Ideology |
Social liberalism Progressivism Economic liberalism Technocracy |
| Political position | Centre |
| National affiliation | Sumemos (2015-2017) |
| Chamber of Deputies |
0 / 120
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| Senate |
0 / 38
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| www.partidociudadanos.cl | |
Citizens (Spanish: Ciudadanos, called Public Force between 2013 and 2015) is a Chilean political party founded in 2013, with members comprising militants and independents of the center and center-left whose beliefs do not align with New Majority or Chile Vamos. Party militants mainly come from the Christian Democratic Party and the Party for Democracy.
One of the ideological axes of Citizens is the realization of political reforms, mainly to the binominal system that governs in the country. Other elements of the party platform include term limits for political officeholders and equal marriage.
The Public Force (Spanish: Fuerza Pública) movement was officially launched on October 7, 2013, through an event held at Concha Palace in the Concha y Toro neighborhood of Santiago de Chile. It was headed by the former Minister of Finance, Andrés Velasco Brañes. With this political movement, Velasco sought to capitalize on the 13% of the vote that he won in the presidential primaries of the New Majority in 2013.
Among the members of Fuerza Pública were Andrés Velasco Brañes, Rafael Guilisasti, Juan José Santa Cruz, Pablo Halpern, José Joaquín Brunner, Eduardo Vergara, Mariana Aylwin and Pilar Armanet.
In the parliamentary elections of 2013, Public Force supported Sebastián Iglesias and Eduardo Vergara as candidates for Deputies, and Soledad Alvear as candidate for the Senate, all of whom were defeated.
On August 15, 2015, the movement held a vote, in which 99.17% of the participants agreed that Public Force should become a political party, with Alex Olivares to serve as the new national coordinator.
On September 28, 2015, Public Force announced the formation of a political coalition with Amplitude and Red Liberal (Spanish: Liberal Network), facing the municipal elections of 2016. This coalition was officially registered under the name Future Sense (Spanish: Sentido Futuro) on January 13, 2016.
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