Amarillos por Chile (lit.'Yellows for Chile'), sometimes written Amarillos x Chile (AxCh), is a political movement and party in Chile which was established with the goal to back away the Constitutional Convention[15] (2021−2022) led by that country's left-wing (Broad Front, Communist Party and activists).[16]
Once established as a party, Amarillos reunited political figures from centre-left and centre-right ―like Mario Waissbluth[19] and Jaime Mañalich[20]―, which installed this organization as a big-tent party focused in the experience of the Concertación (coalition of the Chilean post-dictatorial period) (1988−2013).
History
The movement was born out of columns and letters that Warnken wrote in the radio station Pauta FM and in the newspaper El Mercurio. One such letter, titled "Yellow letter to my children", was published on 27 November 2021. In it, Warnken recounted an incident in Isla Negra where a group of young people yelled "amarillo" and "facho" at him. He drew on the term "amarillo", which had been used in the 1970s to discredit reformists. Patricio Fernández had previously updated the term in a column for The Clinic in July 2018.[21] Warnken's column "Letter to all the yellow bases in the country" was published in Pauta on 6 February 2022, and served as the catalyst for the movement's founding.[22]
On 23 September 2022, Amarillos por Chile presented its founding manifesto as a political party, along with its provisional directive.[23] The first 100 members were also introduced, consisting mainly of former members and politicians from the PPD and PDC.[23] On 21 October 2022, the Electoral Service (Servel) declared the group as "in formation".[24]
