Humanist Party Partido Humanista | |
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| Leader | Octavio González |
| Founded | 26 May 1984 |
| Registered | 31 January 2023[1] |
| Headquarters | Av. Condell 860,Providencia, Santiago de Chile |
| Membership(2017) | 19,756 (6th)[2] |
| Ideology | Universal humanism Libertarian socialism Direct democracy |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | Popular Ecologist Left(2024–) |
| Regional affiliation | São Paulo Forum |
| International affiliation | Humanist International |
| Colours | Orange |
| Chamber of Deputies | 3 / 155 |
| Senate | 0 / 43 |
| Website | |
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TheHumanist Party (Spanish:Partido Humanista) is auniversal humanist,progressive, andleft-wingpolitical party in Chile, founded in 1984. The party is a member of theHumanist International.
In December 1990,Laura Rodríguez became the first elected representative of anyHumanist Party in the world after winning a seat as part of theConcertación coalition, afterAugusto Pinochet handed over power.
At the 2001legislativeelections, the party won 1.1% of the vote but no seats.
For the2005 presidential elections, the Humanist Party was a member of the coalitionJuntos Podemos Más (Together We Can Do/Achieve More). Their presidential candidateTomás Hirsch won 5.4% of the vote in a 4-way race betweenMichelle Bachelet,Sebastián Piñera, andJoaquín Lavín in the 2005 elections. He polled 4th place and therefore did not make the runoff.
On 12 March 2013 they selected economist and university professorMarcel Claude as their candidate for the2013 presidential election.[3]
Since 2017, the Humanist Party was part of theBroad Front, a new political coalition. Their presidential candidate wasBeatriz Sánchez who won 20.3% of the votes, finishing in 3rd place; additionally, three deputies from the party were elected:Tomás Hirsch,Pamela Jiles andFlorcita Alarcón.
The party was dissolved in February 2022 because it did not receive at least 5% of the votes in the2021 parliamentary elections to maintain its legality.[4] Its members in theChamber of Deputies thereafter sat as independents. In October 2022, the party was able to re-register in theChilean electoral service.[5][6]
The following is a list of the presidential candidates and referendum options supported by the Humanist Party:[a]
