Juntos Podemos Más

Juntos Podemos Más (Spanish literal: "Together we can do more", "Podemos" is an acronym of "Po"der "Demo"crático "S"ocial, Spanish for "Social Democratic Power") is a political coalition created in 2003, consisting of the Communist Party of Chile and the Humanist Party of Chile, and several other left-wing organizations (Christian Left, etc.).

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. 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 and others proposing blank votes.

In the 2005 parliamentary election, 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 which privileges the two largest coalitions: "Concertación" and the Alliance for Chile.

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, the MPMR ("Movimiento Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez"), the "Bloque por el Socialismo" (BS — which itself gathers three parties: "Izquierda Socialista" (Socialist Left), the MPS ("Movimiento Por el Socialismo" and the "Partido Alternativa Socialista", PAS), "Identidad Rodriguista" (IR), "Movimiento Fuerza Ciudadana" (FC), "Partido Comunista Chileno (Acción Proletaria) ( in English Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action))" (PC-AP), "Cambio Democrático", "Partido Radical de Chile" (PRCh), "Revolución Democratizadora" (RD), "Generación 80" (G-80), "Partido de los Trabajadores" (PT) and the "Juventudes Comunistas de Chile".

External links

* [http://www.juntospodemos.cl/ Official site]