Socialist Party of Chile
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The Socialist Party of Chile (Spanish: Partido Socialista de Chile, or PS) is a centre-left political party founded in 1933. Its historic leader was President of Chile Salvador Allende, who was deposed in a coup d'état by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973. The military junta immediately banned socialist, Marxist and other leftist political parties.[12] Members of the Socialist party and other leftists were subject to violent suppression, including torture and murder, under the Pinochet dictatorship, and many went into exile. Twenty-seven years after the 1973 coup, Ricardo Lagos Escobar won the Presidency as the Socialist Party candidate in the 1999–2000 Chilean presidential election. Socialist Michelle Bachelet won the 2005–06 Chilean presidential election. She was the first female president of Chile and was succeeded by Sebastián Piñera in 2010. In the 2013 Chilean general election, she was again elected president, leaving office in 2018.
Socialist Party of Chile Partido Socialista de Chile | |
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President | Paulina Vodanovic |
Secretary-General | Camilo Escalona |
Chief of Senators | Alfonso de Urresti |
Chief of Deputies | Daniel Manouchehri |
Founders | Marmaduke Grove Óscar Schnake Carlos Alberto Martínez Salvador Allende |
Founded | 19 April 1933; 91 years ago (1933-04-19) |
Headquarters | París 873, Barrio París-Londres, Santiago, Chile |
Youth wing | Socialist Youth of Chile |
Membership (2023) | 40,364 (3rd)[1] |
Ideology | Latin American integration[8] |
Political position | Centre-left[9][10] Before 1990: Left-wing[7] |
National affiliation | Unity for Chile Democratic Socialism New Social Pact (2021) Constituent Unity (2020 to 2021) |
International affiliation | Progressive Alliance Socialist International[11] |
Regional affiliation | São Paulo Forum COPPPAL |
Colours | Red |
Chamber of Deputies | 13 / 155 |
Senate | 7 / 50 |
Constitutional Council | 6 / 51 |
Regional boards | 23 / 302 |
Mayors | 22 / 345 |
Communal Councils | 274 / 2,252 |
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