Government Alliance

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Government Alliance
Alianza de Gobierno
AbbreviationAdG
Leader Gabriel Boric
Spokesperson Paulina Vodanovic (PS)
Founded6 November 2022 (2022-11-06)
Headquarters Santiago de Chile
Ideology Progressivism [1]
Political position Left-wing
National affiliation Unity for Chile (majority)
Senate
19 / 50
Chamber of Deputies
65 / 155
Regional Governors
7 / 16
Regional councillors
106 / 302
Mayors
82 / 345
Councillors
986 / 2,252

The Government Alliance (Spanish : Alianza de Gobierno) is the name given to the Chilean political coalition founded on 6 November 2022. [2] The coalition was formed 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]

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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

Official leaders in Cerro Castillo on 6 November 2022 announcing the creation of the "Government Alliance". Cerro Castillo 6 de noviembre de 2022.jpg
Official leaders in Cerro Castillo on 6 November 2022 announcing the creation of the "Government Alliance".

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]

Composition

CoalitionPartyAbbr.PresidentIdeology
Apruebo Dignidad logo.svg Apruebo Dignidad Chile Digno Logo.png Chile Digno Partido Comunista de Chile.svg Communist Party of Chile
Partido Comunista de Chile
PCCh Guillermo Teillier Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Federacion Regionalista Verde Social (recorte).png Social Green Regionalist Federation
Federación Regionalista Verde Social
FREVSFlavia Torrealba Regionalism
Green politics
Logo de Accion Humanista Chile.png Humanist Action
Acción Humanista
AH Tomás Hirsch New humanism
Social ecology
Izquierda cristiana chile.svg Christian Left of Chile
Izquierda Cristiana de Chile
ICFernando Astudillo Christian left
Christian socialism
Frente Amplio (Texto).svg Broad Front Logo of the Democratic Revolution.svg Democratic Revolution
Revolución Democrática
RD Juan Ignacio Latorre Social democracy
Democratic socialism
Convergencia Social (recorte).svg Social Convergence
Convergencia Social
CS Diego Ibáñez Libertarian socialism
Autonomism
Comunes logo 2020.png Commons
Comunes
ComunesMarco Velarde Socialism of the 21st century
Autonomism
Logo of the Unir Movement.svg Unite Movement
Movimiento Unir
UNIR Marcelo Díaz Díaz Progressivism
Social democracy
Logo of the Democratic Socialism (Chile).svg Democratic Socialism Emblem of the Socialist Party of Chile.svg Socialist Party of Chile
Partido Socialista de Chile
PS Paulina Vodanovic Social democracy
Democratic socialism
Partido por la Democracia emblema.svg Party for Democracy
Partido por la Democracia
PPD Natalia Piergentili Social democracy
Third Way
Progressivism
Logo nuevo Partido Liberal de Chile.png Liberal Party of Chile
Partido Liberal de Chile
PLPatricio Morales Social liberalism
Progressivism
Emblema Partido Radical Chile.svg Radical Party of Chile
Partido Radical de Chile
PR Leonardo Cubillos Social liberalism
Social democracy
Logo de Nuevo Trato (Chile) 2020.svg New Deal
Nuevo Trato
NT Pablo Vidal Progressivism
Environmentalism

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