People's Party (Chile)

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People's Party
Partido Popular
AbbreviationPopular
PresidentJuan Pablo Sanhueza Tortella
General SecretaryFelipe Espinosa Alarcón
Founded19 December 2022 (2022-12-19)
Registered3 October 2023 (2023-10-03)
Split from Comunes
HeadquartersAvenida Sucre 2790, Ñuñoa
Ideology Socialism
Feminism
Political position Left-wing
Colours  Purple
  Red
Chamber of Deputies
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Senate
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Website
partidopopular.cl

The People's Party (Spanish : Partido Popular; Popular) is a left-wing Chilean political party. [1] It was founded by former members of Comunes, a party that belonged to the progressive Broad Front coalition. [2]

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History

The People's Party began the process to obtain legal registration before the Electoral Service of Chile (Servel) during the first months of 2023, [3] following its founding meeting held in November 2022 at the headquarters of the Central Autónoma de Trabajadores. Among its supporters were Juan Pablo Sanhueza (president of the first board) and Felipe Parada, who left Comunes in October 2022. [4] Former members of Common Force and the Humanist Party of Chile (PH) also joined, including its former president Octavio González, as well as other Chilean left-wing figures such as trade union leader Cristián Cuevas and Giovanna Grandón, who founded The List of the People. [5]

The party declared itself "not part of the government" of Gabriel Boric, criticizing what they considered a political shift since the 2021 Chilean presidential election in which Boric was elected. [6]

On 29 September 2023, Servel announced that the registration request of The People's Party had been accepted in the regions of Arica y Parinacota, Tarapacá and Antofagasta, after meeting the minimum legal requirement of affiliated members. [7] During the first half of 2024, it was also legalized in the regions of Atacama [8] and Valparaíso. [9]

For the 2023 constitutional plebiscite the party supported the "Against" option, registering for the electoral broadcast alongside the parties Progressive Homeland and the Popular Green Alliance Party under the campaign "Citizen Unity: Chile Against Abuse". [10]

For the 2024 municipal elections the party formed the "People’s Ecologist Left" coalition together with the Equality Party and the Humanist Party of Chile (PH), winning four councillors of its own. [11]

Leadership

Following its First National Meeting in October 2023, the party’s central leadership was headed by Cristian Cuevas, accompanied by Matías Gazmuri as general secretary, Denisse Cáceres as executive secretary, and eight vice-presidents, including former constituent Giovanna Grandón, former Humanist Party president Octavio González, and activists and leaders such as John Parada, Evelyn González and María Jesús Aguilar, among others. [12]

The party also maintains a Supreme Tribunal composed of a president, a vice-president, a secretary, and two additional directors. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Popular: el partido en formación que disputará los votos de izquierda en Antofagasta en las elecciones del 2024". Timeline.cl (in Spanish). 2023-07-21. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  2. ↑ "Cómo el séquito de Karina Oliva se reinventó en un nuevo partido y Comunes apuesta a revitalizarse". La Tercera (in Spanish). 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  3. 1 2 "Extract of the People's Party's charter" (PDF). Servicio Electoral de Chile (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  4. ↑ González, Alberto (14 October 2022). "Mayor of Macul leads mass resignation from Comunes amid criticism of the party". BioBioChile (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  5. ↑ "How Karina Oliva's entourage reinvented itself in a new party while Comunes seeks to revitalize itself". La Tercera (in Spanish). 23 March 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  6. ↑ "Daniel Jadue and Karina Oliva at La Cámpora's march (and the flirtations with the new People's Party)". La Tercera (in Spanish). 28 March 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  7. ↑ "Registration of the People's Party accepted in the regions of Arica y Parinacota, Tarapacá and Antofagasta" (PDF). Servicio Electoral de Chile (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  8. ↑ "Registration of the People's Party accepted in the Atacama Region" (PDF). Servicio Electoral de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  9. ↑ "Extension request of the People's Party in the Valparaíso Region" (PDF). Servicio Electoral de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  10. ↑ "CNTV announces participants and distribution of airtime for the 2023 Constitutional Plebiscite electoral broadcast". CNTV (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 17 November 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  11. ↑ Briones, Gabriela (20 July 2024). "People's Ecologist Left: new pact formed by former FA and PC sectors ahead of municipal elections". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  12. ↑ "Cristián Cuevas, new president of the People's Party: "We have come to contest politics"". Radio Universidad de Chile (in Spanish). 23 October 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
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