Juntos Podemos Más por Chile (Spanish

Spanish language

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 literal: Together we can do more for Chile, Podemos is an acronym of Poder Democrático Social, Spanish for Social Democratic Power) is a political coalition created in 2003, consisting of the Communist Party of Chile

Communist Party of Chile

The Communist Party of Chile is a Chilean political party inspired by the thoughts of Karl Marx and Lenin. It was founded in 1922, as the continuation of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 1934 it established its youth wing, the Communist Youth of Chile .In the last legislative elections in Chile...

, the Humanist Party

Humanist Party (Chile)

The Humanist Party is a progressive left-wing political party in Chile, founded in 1984.In December 1990, Laura Rodríguez became the first elected representative of any Humanist Party in the world after winning a seat as part of the Concertación coalition, after Augusto Pinochet handed over...

, the Christian Left Party of Chile, and several other smaller left-wing organizations.

The Coalition presented at first five candidates (including the sociologist Tomás Moulián for the Communist Party) for the 2005 presidential election, but then finally agreed on the Humanist Party candidate, Tomás Hirsch

Tomás Hirsch

Tomás René Hirsch Goldschmidt is a leftist Chilean politician and businessman. He was the Together We Can Do More pact candidate for the 2005 Chilean presidential election, winning 5.4% of the vote.- Biography :...

. He obtained 5.4% of the vote (375,048 voices). The Coalition divided itself during the second turn, some conditionally voting for left-of-center candidate Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet

Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Social Democrat politician who was President of Chile from 11 March 2006 to 11 March 2010. She was the first woman president of her country...

 and others proposing blank votes.

In the 2005 parliamentary election

Chilean parliamentary election, 2005

The 2005 Chilean parliamentary election took place on December 11, 2005, in conjunction with the presidential election. All of the 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies were contested, while 20 out of 38 seats in the Senate were up for election . Deputies serve for a period of four years, while...

, the pact obtained 7.38% of the vote in deputies (lower chamber), and 5.98% in the senate, but not seats in either congressional. Members of the coalition blame this upon the binomial system

Politics of Chile

The politics of Chile takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Chile is both head of state and head of government, and of a formal multi-party system that in practice behaves like a two-party one, due to binominalism. Executive power...

 which privileges the two largest coalitions: Concertación

Coalition of Parties for Democracy

The Concert of Parties for Democracy , more often known as the Concertación, is a coalition of center-left political parties in Chile, founded in 1988...

and the Alliance for Chile

Alliance for Chile

The Alliance for Chile , also known simply as The Alliance , was a coalition of right-wing Chilean political parties.The Alliance was replaced in 2009 by the Coalition for Change....

.

Composition

The coalition is made up of more than 50 parties and organisations, including the Communist Party (PCCh), the Humanist Party (PH), Izquierda Cristiana (Christian Left), MIR

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, the MPMR (Movimiento Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez), the Bloque por el Socialismo (BS — which itself gathers three parties: Izquierda Socialista (Socialist Left), the MPS

MPS

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 (Movimiento Por el Socialismo and the Partido Alternativa Socialista, PAS), Identidad Rodriguista (IR), Movimiento Fuerza Ciudadana (FC), Cambio Democrático

Cambio Democrático

Cambio Democrático can refer to:* Democratic Change * Democratic Change...

, Partido Radical de Chile (PRCh), Revolución Democratizadora (RD), Generación 80 (G-80), Partido de los Trabajadores (PT) and the Juventudes Comunistas de Chile.