Patriotic Union (Chile)
Patriotic Union Unión Patriótica | |
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President | Eduardo Artés |
First Secretary | Luis Aravena Egaña |
Founded | 14 September 2015 |
Legalised | 24 April 2016 |
Membership (2021) | 33,246[1] |
Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Stalinism[2] Anti-revisionism[3] Anti-Zionism[4] Anti-imperialism[5] |
Political position | Far-left[6][7][8] |
Colors | Red and Blue |
Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 120 |
Senate | 0 / 38 |
Website | |
http://unionpatriotica.cl/ | |
Patriotic Union (Spanish: Unión Patriótica, UPA) is a Chilean political party. It was founded in September 2015 and is led by Eduardo Artés, first secretary of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action).[9]
Legally registered in 2016, it first appeared in the municipal elections of that year. The party obtained 0.32% of the total votes but no candidates were elected to any council.[10]
It was declared as an anti-imperialist, progressive, patriotic and populist party.[11] Its leader has expressed sympathy with the government of North Korea and the government of President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.[12][13]
For the 2017 elections, the party proclaimed Artés as its presidential candidate.[14]
Presidential candidates[]
The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by the Patriotic Union. (Information gathered from the Archive of Chilean Elections).
- 2017: Eduardo Artés (lost)
- 2021: Eduardo Artés (lost)
References[]
- ^ "Total afiliados actualizados por partidos políticos". Servicio Electoral de Chile (in Spanish). October 31, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
- ^ "La suerte está echada: Nueve candidatos competirán por la Presidencia de Chile en noviembre". Cooperativa.cl.
- ^ https://unionpatriotica.cl/jorge-mario-bergoglio-papa-francisco-y-su-visita-a-chile-por-eduardo-artes/
- ^ "Contra el Genocidio en Palestina. Declaración Pública Partido Unión Patriótica y Eduardo Artés, candidato a la presidencia de Chile". UPA - Unión Patriótica. 2017-07-31. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
- ^ "Entrevista a Eduardo Artés desde Alemania, publicada en el Cuaderno N°3 de la Agrupación de los Librepensadores". UPA - Unión Patriótica. 2017-11-15. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
- ^ Roberto Bruna Henríquez. "Yo no voto, me organizo: una radiografía a la ultraizquierda chilena". El Mostrador (in Spanish).
- ^ Leonardo Estradé-Brancoli (27 February 2020). "Antecedente Histórico-Ideológico, su Ubicación y Adhesión por parte de los partidos Políticos Chilenos". p. 9.
- ^ Noticias, C. H. V. "Elección de constituyentes: Mira acá cuáles son la posiciones ideológicas de las 70 listas". CHV Noticias. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ ADN Radio. "Presidenciable de Unión Patriótica: "Chile como está, va a la bancarrota"" (in Spanish). August 23, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
- ^ Servel. "Elecciones de Concejales 2016" (in Spanish). 2016. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ^ LeyChile. "Extracto escritura de constitución partido político en formación "Unión Patriótica"" (in Spanish). October 2, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
- ^ La Segunda. "Eduardo Artés, el chileno que defiende a Corea del Norte "en guerra" con EE.UU. y Seúl" (in Spanish). April 1, 2013. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
- ^ BiobioChile (24 August 2017). "Eduardo Artés, candidato presidencial: Corea del Norte es una democracia popular" (in Spanish). August 24, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
- ^ 24 Horas (4 August 2017). "Eduardo Artés inscribe candidatura presidencial por el partido Unión Patriótica de Chile" (in Spanish). August 8, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
External links[]
- Unión Patriótica (Chile) (in Spanish)
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- Anti-imperialist organizations
- Communist parties in Chile
- Stalinist parties
- Anti-revisionist organizations
- Far-left politics in Chile
- Political parties established in 2015
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