Christian Left Party (Chile)

The Christian Left Party (Spanish: "Izquierda Cristiana") is a young Chilean left wing political party. Founded in 1971, in its early days it was suppressed by the Pinochet dictatorship. It had relevance at it fights citizen against the dictatorship, but it lost relevance on the Chilean Politics, when it returned the democracy.

It currently is a member of the pact "Together We Are Capable of More" (Spanish: "Juntos Podemos Más"). The Christian Left carried out its second national congress at 2006. In that opportunity, the militants chose Manuel Jacques for president of the Party.

On october 3rd 2007, it started an inscription process on the Political Party Registry (Spanish: Registro de Partidos Políticos), from which it was erased on 1989, for not having obtained enough votes to continue being a legal party. The process ended up favorably on may 25th, 2008, when the Electoral Service ("Servicio Electoral") of Chile resolve it's inscription as a Legal Political Party. [es: Servicio Electoral. "Acoge solicitud de inscripción del partido Izquierda Cristiana de Chile, en formación, en el Registro de Partidos Políticos". Resolución Número 0-994. Santiago, 25 de junio de 2008. [http://www.diariodigital.cl/sumarios4/PapelDigital/20080625/ Diario Oficial Nº 39.098, June 27th, 2008] ]

References

See also

* Christian left
* Christian socialism

External links

* [http://www.izquierdacristiana.cl Home page (in Spanish)]