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Republican Party (Chile, 2019)

Republican Party
Partido Republicano
AbbreviationPLR
LeaderArturo Squella
General SecretaryRuth Hurtado
Vice Presidents1° Luis Sánchez Ossa
2ª Catalina Ugarte Millán
3ª Vicente Bruna Ferrer
4ª María Idilia Gatica
5ª Romina Cifuentes González
6° Javier Leturia
FounderJosé Antonio Kast
Founded10 June 2019 (2019-06-10)
Registered21 January 2020 (2020-01-21)
Split fromIndependent Democratic Union
Preceded byRepublican Action
HeadquartersMiguel Comas 1805, Vitacura[1]
Think tankRepublican Ideas[2]
Youth wingRepublican Party Youth[3]
Membership (February 2022)21,491[4]
Ideology
Political positionFar-right[5][6][7][8]
National affiliationChristian Social Front
(2021–22)
ColoursChilean national colours:
  Blue
  White
  Red
Chamber of Deputies
12 / 155
Senate
1 / 50
Communal Councils
12 / 2,252
Website
partidorepublicanodechile.cl

The Republican Party (Spanish: Partido Republicano; PLR) is a right-wing populist and conservative political party in Chile. Its founder and former leader is Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast.[10][11][12]

  1. ^ https://www.diarioconstitucional.cl/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Reclamacio-n_candidatura_F.A._26.01.2021.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ "RN abre expediente para expulsar a Rojo Edwards por participar en el partido de J.A. Kast". CNN Chile.
  3. ^ @joseantoniokast (June 17, 2020). "Los invito a seguir la cuenta oficial de #twitter de la Juventud Republicana de nuestro partido. @Juventud_PLR 🇨🇱" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ^ "Estadísticas de afiliados a partidos políticos". Servel. Archived from the original on December 19, 2021. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  5. ^ "José Antonio Kast, a far-right figure, could lead Chile". The Economist. November 23, 2021.
  6. ^ ""Hay una disputa de época entre Kast, que pretende no cambiar nada, versus Boric, que pretende cambiarlo todo"". BBC News Mundo.
  7. ^ García, Víctor (October 10, 2021). "La extrema derecha gana terreno en Chile de la mano de un seguidor de Jair Bolsonaro" – via La Nación (Argentina).
  8. ^ "El auge del Partido Republicano: el sistema electoral, la moderación de la derecha clásica y las crisis económicas, de seguridad y de migración" (in Spanish). El País. May 9, 2023. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference URU was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ "Partido Republicano en el mapa de la política" (in Spanish). La Tercera. June 15, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  11. ^ "NACIONAL POLÍTICA Partido Republicano: José Antonio Kast inscribe nuevo referente en el Servel". Diario U Chile. June 10, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  12. ^ "Se lanzó el nuevo Partido Republicano de José Antonio Kast". T13. June 10, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019.

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