Juntos Podemos Más | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Tomás Hirsch |
| Founded | December 2003 |
| Headquarters | Santiago de Chile |
| Ideology | Socialism Humanism Communism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Chamber of Deputies | 3 / 120 |
| Senate | 0 / 38 |
| Local government | 7 / 345 |
| Website | |
| http://www.juntospodemos.cl/ (archive) | |
Juntos Podemos Más por Chile (Spanish literal:Together we can do more for Chile,Podemos is anacronym ofPoderDemocráticoSocial, Spanish forSocial Democratic Power) was a political coalition created in 2003, consisting of theCommunist Party of Chile, theHumanist Party, theChristian Left Party of Chile, and several other smaller left-wing organizations.
The Coalition presented at first five candidates (including the sociologistTomás Moulián for the Communist Party) for the2005 presidential election, but then finally agreed on the Humanist Party candidate,Tomás Hirsch. He obtained 5.4% of the vote (375,048 votes). The Coalition divided itself during the runoff vote, some conditionally voting for left-of-center candidateMichelle Bachelet and others proposingblank votes.
In the2005 parliamentary election, the pact obtained 7.38% of the vote in the lower chamber election, and 5.98% in the Senate election, but did not win seats in either chamber. Members of the coalition blame this upon thebinomial system, which privileges the two largest coalitions:Concertación and theAlliance for Chile.
For the2009 parliamentary election, the coalition joined the Concertación list and won three seats in the lower chamber, all from the Communist Party. At the concurrentpresidential election, Juntos Podemos supported the candidacy of formerSocialist Party memberJorge Arrate as President, who won 6.2% of the vote. The Humanist Party left the coalition and supported independent candidateMarco Enríquez-Ominami.
The coalition was made up of more than 50 parties and organisations, including the Communist Party (PCCh), the Humanist Party (PH) (until 2009),Izquierda Cristiana (Christian Left),Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)(PCAP) ,MIR, theMPMR (Movimiento Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez), theBloque por el Socialismo (BS) — which itself gathers three parties:Izquierda Socialista (Socialist Left), theMovimiento Por el Socialismo (MPS) and thePartido Alternativa Socialista (PAS) —Identidad Rodriguista (IR),Movimiento Fuerza Ciudadana (FC),Cambio Democrático,Partido Radical de Chile (PRCh),Revolución Democratizadora (RD),Generación 80 (G-80),Partido de los Trabajadores (PT) and theJuventudes Comunistas de Chile.
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