The Socialist Party of Chile is a centre-left political party. Its historic leader was President of Chile Salvador Allende,who was deposed in a coup d'état by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973. Twenty-seven years later,Ricardo Lagos Escobar represented the Socialist Party in the 1999–2000 Chilean presidential election. He won 48.0% in the first round of voting and was elected with 51.3% in the second round. In the 2001 Chilean parliamentary election,as part of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy,the party won 10 out of 117 seats in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile and 5 out of 38 elected seats in the Senate. After the 2005 Chilean parliamentary election,the party increased its seats to 15 and 8,respectively. In the 2009 Chilean parliamentary election,it retained 11 Congressional and 5 Senate seats.
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Chilean politician who has served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights since 2018. She previously served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 2018 for the Socialist Party of Chile;she is the first woman to hold the Chilean presidency and the first elected female leader in South America. After leaving the presidency in 2010 and while not immediately reelectable,she was appointed the first executive director of the newly created United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In December 2013,Bachelet was reelected with over 62% of the vote,bettering the 54% she obtained in 2006. She was the first President of Chile to be reelected since 1932.
The Citizen Left Party of Chile,known until 2013 as Christian Left Party of Chile was a Chilean left-wing political party. Founded in 1971,in its early days it was suppressed by the Pinochet dictatorship. It was part of the Nueva Mayoría coalition,supporting the presidential candidacy president Michelle Bachelet in 2013.
JoséAndrés Rafael Zaldívar Larraín,popularly known as El Chico Zaldívar,is a prominent Chilean Christian Democrat politician. Andrés Zaldívar is of Basque descent.
Gabriel Salazar Vergara is a Chilean historian. He is known in his country for his study of social history and interpretations of social movements,particularly the recent student protests of 2006 and 2011–12.
Jorge Félix Arrate Mac Niven is a Chilean lawyer,economist,writer and politician. He was the Minister of State for the Chilean presidents Salvador Allende,Patricio Aylwin,and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle. In 2009,he was appointed as candidate for president of Chile in representation of the political alliance Juntos Podemos Más and other leftist political movements,obtaining 6.21 percent of the total votes in the elections of that year.
The 2011–2013 Chilean protests –known as the Chilean Winter or the Chilean Education Conflict –were a series of student-led protests across Chile,demanding a new framework for education in the country,including more direct state participation in secondary education and an end to the existence of profit in higher education. Currently in Chile,only 45% of high school students study in traditional public schools and most universities are also private. No new public universities have been built since the end of the Chilean transition to democracy in 1990,even though the number of university students has increased.
Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling is a Chilean communist politician and former student leader who has been serving as Minister General Secretariat of Government since 11 March 2022. Previously,Vallejo served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies,representing District 26 of La Florida,Santiago.
The 2011 Chilean protests over the education have been primarily led by the CONFECH,the student unions association of Chile's 25 traditional universities,and CONES the student union association of secondary students of Chile. The student union leaders of emblematic universities and schools account for most of the movements leadership at national level.
The Communist Youth of Chile is the youth wing of the Communist Party of Chile. It was founded on September 5,1932,and it incorporates young communist activists between the ages of 14 to 28. The JJ.CC has political representation at the local and national level and its members have played a prominent role in the student organizations in Chile. The youth wing of the communist party currently has 5,300 members.
Karol Aída Cariola Oliva is a Chilean politician,and former president of the Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Concepción for 2010. She was elected General Secretary of the Juventudes Comunistas de Chile,abbr. JJ.CC.,at the organizations XIII Congress held in October 2011. Cariola is the second woman to hold this post in the Communist Youth of Chile after the late communist leader Gladys Marin (1941-2005).
The Confederation of Chilean Students is a student organization in Chile that congregates the student federations of universities in Chile.
Rossana Marisol Prado Villegas,is a Chilean physician,psychiatrist and academic who became the first woman to hold the post of president of the University of Chile Student Federation which was founded in 1906;she was the first and only woman until Camila Vallejo assumed the post in August 2010,followed by Scarlett Mac-Ginty in November 2011.
General elections were held in Chile on 17 November 2013,including presidential,parliamentary and regional elections. Voters went to the polls to elect:
Kenneth Giorgio Jackson Drago is a Chilean politician and engineer who has been serving as chile's Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency since 11 March 2022. He is founder and first congressman of the political party Democratic Revolution,achieving the highest personal vote in the 2017 elections to the lower chamber. He was one of the leaders of the student mobilizations of 2011 and collaborated in the creation of the Chilean Broad Front and the presidential candidacy of Beatriz Sánchez.
Gabriel Boric Font is the current President of Chile,serving since 11 March 2022. Boric studied in the Faculty of Law at the University of Chile,and was the president of the University of Chile Student Federation from 2011 to 2012. Although he completed his studies at law school,he never graduated. As a student representative,he became one of the leading figures of the 2011–2013 Chilean student protests. Boric was twice elected to the Chamber of Deputies representing the Magallanes and Antarctic district,first as an independent candidate in 2013 and then in 2017 as part of the Broad Front,a left-wing coalition he created with several other parties. He is a founding member of Social Convergence,which was formed in 2018 and is one of the constituent parties of Broad Front.
The presidential primaries of the Nueva Mayoría in 2013 was the method of election of the Chilean presidential candidate of the political parties Christian Democrat,Radical Social-Democrat,For Democracy,Socialist,Movimiento Amplio Social,Communist and Citizen Left and,in addition to the left-wing and center-left independents,grouped in the "Nueva Mayoría" pact,for the 2013 election. On that same date,the conglomerate also planned to hold its parliamentary primaries in districts and/or districts where appropriate;However,on 1 May it was decided that such primaries would not be carried out at the official level.
Paula Narváez Ojeda is a Chilean politician and psychologist who notably served as Minister Secretary General of Government during the second administration of Michelle Bachelet. Narváez is the nominee of the Socialist Party in the 2021 Chilean presidential election.
Óscar Daniel Jadue Jadue is a Chilean architect,sociologist and Marxist politician. A member of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh),Jadue has served as Mayor of Recoleta since 2012.
For his father,the agronomist and researcher,see RenéCortázar Sagarminaga.
