Communist Party of Chile Partido Comunista de Chile | |
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| President | Guillermo Teillier |
| Secretary-General | Lautaro Carmona [es] |
| Chief of Deputies | Boris Barrera |
| Founded | 4 June 1912;113 years ago (1912-06-04) |
| Headquarters | Vicuña Mackenna 31 Santiago |
| Newspaper | El Siglo |
| Youth wing | Communist Youth of Chile |
| Membership(2023) | 46,031[1] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Left-wing[3] tofar-left[4][5] |
| National affiliation | Chile Digno (since 2020) Apruebo Dignidad (since 2021) Formerly:
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| Regional affiliation | São Paulo Forum |
| International affiliation | |
| Colours | |
| Chamber of Deputies | 12 / 155 |
| Senate | 2 / 50 |
| Party flag | |
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| Website | |
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TheCommunist Party of Chile (Spanish:Partido Comunista de Chile) is aChileanpolitical party inspired by the thoughts ofKarl Marx andVladimir Lenin. It was founded in 1922, as the continuation of theSocialist Workers Party. In 1932 it established its youth wing, theCommunist Youth of Chile (Juventudes Comunistas de Chile [abbr:JJ.CC]).
The PCCh was a member of "New Majority" (Spanish:Nueva Mayoría), a leftist coalition led byPresident of ChileMichelle Bachelet.
It holds 8 seats in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile.
| General Secretary | Tenure | President | Tenure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramón Sepúlveda Leal | 1922–? | Elijah Lafferte | 1956–1961 |
| Luis A. González | ?–? | Dissolved | 1961–2002 |
| Galvarino Gil | ?–? | Gladys Marín | 2002–2005 |
| Maclovio Galdames | ?–? | Guillermo Teillier | 2005–present |
| José Santos Zavala | ?–? | — | — |
| Isaias Iriarte | ?–1929 | — | — |
| Carlos Contreras Labarca | 1931–1946 | — | — |
| Ricardo Fonseca | 1946–1948 | — | — |
| Oyarzun Galo González | 1948–1958 | — | — |
| Luis Corvalán | 1958–1990 | — | — |
| Volodia Teitelboim | 1990–1994 | — | — |
| Gladys Marín | 1994–2002 | — | — |
| Guillermo Teillier | 2002–2005 | — | — |
| Lautaro Carmona [es] | 2005–present | — | — |
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