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National Renewal (Chile)

National Renewal
Renovación Nacional
Leader Cristián Monckeberg
Founded 29 April 1987
Merger of National Union Movement, Independent Democratic Union and National Labour Front
Headquarters Avenida Antonio Varas 454, Providencia, Santiago, Chile
Youth wing Juventud de Renovación Nacional (JRN)
National affiliation Chile Vamos
Membership  (2009) 90.029 (4th)
Ideology Conservatism
Liberal conservatism
Conservative liberalism
Classical liberalism
Political position Centre-right to Right-wing
International affiliation International Democrat Union
Regional affiliation Union of Latin American Parties
Colours              Blue, White and Red
Chamber of Deputies
19 / 120
Senate
8 / 38
Party flag
Flag of Renovacion Nacional.png
Website
www.rn.cl

National Renewal (Spanish: Renovación Nacional, RN) is a liberal conservative political party belonging to the Chilean centre-right political coalition called Chile Vamos in conjunction with the Independent Democratic Union (UDI), the Independent Regionalist Party (PRI) and Political Evolution (Evópoli). The party president is the deputy Cristián Monckeberg, and its principal leaders are Sebastián Piñera, former President of Chile and Andrés Allamand, former minister of defense, former presidential candidate and Senator.

National Renewal was formed on 29 April 1987 when three rightist organizations – the National Union Movement (Movimiento de Unión Nacional, MUN), the National Labour Front (Frente Nacional del Trabajo, FNT), and the Independent Democratic Union (Unión Demócrata Independiente, UDI) — joined together in preparation for the 1988 Plebiscite that would determine the continuity or not of rule of Augusto Pinochet who had been in power since the coup of 1973. The UDI soon broke away to run as a separate party due to its strong support for the plebiscite and a Pinochet candidacy, while the remaining National Renewal party indicated its preference for an open election or a candidate other than Pinochet. However, once Pinochet was proclaimed candidate, the overwhelming majority of National Renewal supported him.

The party was founded on 29 April with 351 founding members. In this way, National Renewal was the first political party to form in Chile after the lifting on the ban of political parties that had been established after the coup; by December of that year, 61,167 members, led by Andrés Allamand, had joined. The principal idea that the party proclaimed was to generate an environment of calm during the return of democracy. The party supported UDI candidate Joaquín Lavín as the sole Alliance candidate in the 1999/2000 presidential elections, who went on to obtain 47.5% of the votes in the first round, but was subsequently defeated in the second round by Ricardo Lagos.


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