Citizen Power (political party)

Citizen Power
Poder Ciudadano
PresidentKarina Oliva
Founded20 March 2015
Dissolved20 January 2019
Merged intoCommons
CoalitionBroad Front
Membership (2017)3014[1]
IdeologySocialism of the 21st century
Political positionLeft-wing
ColoursPurple
Chamber of Deputies
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Senate
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Website
partidopoder.cl

Citizen Power (Poder Ciudadano) was a Chilean left-wing political party, founded in 2015. It was created by former supporters of Michelle Bachelet, Marcel Claude, Franco Parisi and Alfredo Sfeir, who were presidential candidates for the 2013 elections.[2]

In 2017, the party joined a new leftist coalition called Broad Front, which competed in the presidential and parliamentary elections that year.[3]

On September 27, 2018, Autonomous Left merged with Poder Ciudadano, the latter saying via Twitter to "...create a new party of feminist, popular and democratic left..."[4] The new party was called Commons.

Presidential candidates

The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by Power. (Information gathered from the Archive of Chilean Elections).

References

  1. ^ Servel: Total afiliados actualizados por partidos políticos
  2. ^ El Mercurio. ""Explosión" de partidos políticos reconfigura el mapa electoral de cara a 2017" (in Spanish). Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  3. ^ Radio Bío-Bío. "Beatriz Sánchez suma el apoyo de Poder Ciudadano y FA minimiza críticas de Guillier" (in Spanish). Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  4. ^ "Broad Front: Autonomous Left merges with Poder Ciudadano". cooperativa.cl. September 27, 2018. Retrieved February 5, 2019.