Independent Regionalist Party

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Independent Regionalist Party
Partido Regionalista Independiente
President Hugo Ortiz de Filippi
FoundedJuly 4, 2006
DissolvedFebruary 20, 2018
Merger of Regionalist Action Party of Chile and National Alliance of Independents
Merged into Democratic Independent Regionalist Party
National affiliation Chile Vamos
Membership (2009)40,852 (9th) [1]
Ideology Regionalism
Reformism
Political position Centre [2]
Colours Blue and Red
Chamber of Deputies
0 / 120
Senate
0 / 38
Website
http://www.pricentro.cl/

The Independent Regionalist Party (Spanish : Partido Regionalista Independiente, PRI) was a centrist political party in Chile. The party was regionalist ideologically but had a nationwide presence. [3] It was intended to be an alternative to the dominant coalitions in the Chilean electoral system, the New Majority and the Alliance.

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It was formed by the merger of the National Alliance of Independents (ANI) and the Regionalist Action Party of Chile (PAR) on 4 July 2006. [4] In 2008, a group of former members of the Christian Democratic Party joined, earning the name "Los Colorines" (the Redheads), referring to the hair color of their leader, Adolfo Zaldívar. [5]

The party did not support any candidate in the 2009-10 presidential election. For the parliamentary election, the party joined the coalition "Clean Chile Vote Happy", along with Broad Social Movement and Country Force. Got the election of three deputies, who later left the party. [6] For the 2013 presidential election, the Regionalist Party of the Independents selected as candidate political scientist Ricardo Israel, who ran for mayor of Santiago in the 2008 municipal election.

As of 2015, the PRI was part of the centre-right coalition Chile Vamos, with the National Renewal, Independent Democratic Union and Political Evolution political parties.

On 20 February 2018, the PRI was dissolved after it merged with the Patagonian Regional Democracy party to become the Democratic Independent Regionalist Party. [7]

Presidential candidates

The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by the Independent Regionalist Party. [8] [9] [10]

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  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 20, 2021. Retrieved December 3, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ (in Spanish) http://www.pricentro.cl/imgsitio/Documento-Programatico.pdf Archived 2013-10-22 at the Wayback Machine "Regionalista, Reformista y Moderado"
  4. ↑ Terra. "Listas y partidos políticos para las Elecciones presidenciales y parlamentarias de 2005" (in Spanish). Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  5. ↑ Chile.com. "ADOLFO ZALDÍVAR INGRESÓ AL PRI" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 21, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  6. ↑ Cambio 21. "Vida y milagros de los ex DC que siguieron al "colorín" Zaldívar. Renuncias y divisiones políticas inundan al PRI" (in Spanish). December 2, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ https://www.pressreader.com/chile/la-tercera/20180403/281818579392654 . Retrieved August 11, 2023– via PressReader.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ "PRI proclamó a Ricardo Israel como candidato a la presidencia". Cooperativa. July 20, 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
  9. ↑ "2009". eleccion.atspace.com. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  10. ↑ "PRI proclama a Sebastián Piñera como su principal carta de cara a las próximas presidenciales". www.t13.cl (in Spanish). December 17, 2016. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
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