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Amarillos por Chile

Yellows for Chile
Amarillos por Chile
AbbreviationAxCh
PresidentAndrés Jouannet
General SecretaryIsidro Solís
Vice PresidentsJaime Abedrapo
Pilar Peña
Gonzalo Rojas-May
Lucía Morales
Paola Marín
Fernando Gipoulou[1]
ProsecretaryBernardita Soto
FounderCristián Warnken
Founded18 February 2022 (2022-02-18)
Split fromParty for Democracy
Christian Democratic Party
HeadquartersSantiago de Chile
IdeologyConcertacionism[2]
Laguism[3][4][5]
Christian humanism[6][7]
Social liberalism[8]
Social democracy[9]
Welfare state[10]
Catch-all
Political positionCentre[11][12]
Related institutionsFundación Amarillos por Chile[13]
Colours  Yellow
  Blue
Slogan«Reforms and Democracy»
(Spanish: «Reformas y Democracia»)[14]
Chamber of Deputies
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Senate
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Website
amarillosxchile.cl

Amarillos por Chile (lit. 'Yellows for Chile'), sometimes written Amarillos x Chile (AxCh), is a political movement and party in Chile which was established with the goal to back away the Constitutional Convention.[15]

It was founded in 2022 by Cristián Warnken and brings together prominent personalities in the country, including businessmen, former parliamentarians, and former politicians from the defunct Concertación coalition, particularly from the Party for Democracy (PPD) and Christian Democratic Party (PDC). The movement emerged as a response to certain proposals of the Constitutional Convention, which it viewed as "refoundational".[16][17]

Once established as a party, Amarillos reunited political figures from centre-left and centre-right ―like Mario Waissbluth[18] and Jaime Mañalich[19]―, which installed this organization as a big-tent party focused in the experience of the Concertación (coalition of the Chilean post-dictatorial period) (1988−2013).

History

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The movement was born out of columns and letters that Warnken wrote in the radio station Pauta FM and in the newspaper El Mercurio. One such letter, titled "Yellow letter to my children", was published on 27 November 2021. In it, Warnken recounted an incident in Isla Negra where a group of young people yelled "amarillo" and "facho" at him. He drew on the term "amarillo", which had been used in the 1970s to discredit reformists. Patricio Fernández had previously updated the term in a column for The Clinic in July 2018.[20] Warnken's column "Letter to all the yellow bases in the country" was published in Pauta on 6 February 2022, and served as the catalyst for the movement's founding.[21]

On 23 September 2022, Amarillos por Chile presented its founding manifesto as a political party, along with its provisional directive.[22] The first 100 members were also introduced, consisting mainly of former members and politicians from the PPD and PDC.[22] On 21 October 2022, the Electoral Service (Servel) declared the group as "in formation".[23]

See also

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List of political parties in Chile

References

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  1. ^ "Alvear, Burgos, Micco, Cortázar y Jouannet: Los nombres que conforman Amarillos por Chile".
  2. ^ Bruna, Roberto (13 May 2022). "Definitivamente nada neutrales: moderados de la Convención separan aguas con los "amarillos" y acusan "pequeñez" y temor a los cambios". El Mostrador (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 June 2023.
  3. ^ Gálvez, Mario (9 October 2022). "[Confidencial] La mano del laguismo detrás de la expansión de Amarillos". Ex-Ante. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
  4. ^ Peró, Alfonso; Díaz, Waldo (13 September 2022). "Los Amarillos deciden convertirse en partido político mirando los espacios vacíos que dejó la centroizquierda". Ex-Ante. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
  5. ^ "Amarillos recolecta primeras 100 firmas para crear partido / La historia de amor y odio del FA y el PC con Interferencia". El Líbero (in Spanish). 24 September 2022. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
  6. ^ "El rol y las huellas de Gutenberg Martínez en la transformación de Amarillos en partido político". ExAnte. 24 September 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  7. ^ "¿Una nueva DC? Amarillos entra en etapa clave para transformarse en partido". El Desconcierto. 21 September 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  8. ^ "El apoyo de Amarillos a Natalia Piergentili y Gloria Hutt y su apuesta por forjar una alianza "reformista y liberal" (Lea el documento)". ExAnte. 7 February 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  9. ^ "Amarillos por Chile inaugura su Escuela de Líderes: actividad contará con la participación de Karla Rubilar". El Mostrador. 10 January 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  10. ^ "Los Amarillos se lanzan como "partido continuador de lo realizado por la Concertación"". Radio Cooperativa. 23 September 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  11. ^ "Amarillos y el centro político". La Tercera. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  12. ^ "Zaldívar y fuga de militantes DC: "Hay un riesgo de que los Amarillos disputen el centro político"". Canal 13. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
  13. ^ "Con Cristián Warnken como presidente, Amarillos por Chile será partido político: ¿Quiénes son sus primeros militantes?". pauta (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 June 2023.
  14. ^ https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2022/09/23/1073694/amarillos-por-chile-partido-politico.html Amarillos por Chile se lanza como partido político y anuncia creación de un centro de estudios: "Aceptamos el desafío"
  15. ^ ""Amarillos por Chile" se declara en "alerta máxima" por artículos aprobados en la Convención". Radio Bío-Bío. 27 March 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  16. ^ "Amarillos por Chile: nace un nuevo movimiento y lo encabeza Cristián Warnken". Pauta. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  17. ^ "Cristián Warnken: "Si esta es una Constitución amarilla, vamos a aprobarla con mucho entusiasmo"". Pauta. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  18. ^ "Quién es Mario Waissbluth, vocero de Amarillos por Chile". Mala Espina. 25 July 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  19. ^ "Mañalich ficha en Amarillos: quién convenció al exministro que antes coqueteaba con Evópoli". La Tercera. 30 January 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  20. ^ Fernández, Patricio (26 July 2018). "Los amarillos". The Clinic. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  21. ^ "Cómo surgió el movimiento "Amarillos por Chile" de Cristián Warnken: desde una funa en Isla Negra a un chat que creció en forma explosiva". Ex-Ante. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  22. ^ a b "Alvear, Burgos, Micco, Cortázar y Jouannet: Los nombres que conforman Amarillos por Chile". T13. 23 September 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  23. ^ S, Rodrigo Gómez (21 October 2022). "Amarillos por Chile es declarado por el Servel como "partido político en formación" con Cristián Warnken como presidente". La Tercera. Retrieved 24 October 2022.