Renovación Nacional

Renovación Nacional National renewal
Party leader	Mario Desbordes
Secretary General	Felipe Cisternas
founding	April 29, 1987
Headquarters	Antonio Varas 454, Providencia , Santiago Metropolitan Area
Affiliate foundation	Instituto Libertad ( www.institutolibertad.cl )
Alignment	Conservatism , economic liberalism
Colours)	blue
Parliament seats	Senate: 7/43 Chamber of Deputies: 36/155
International connections	International Democratic Union

The Renovación Nacional (German: "National Renewal"), abbreviated to RN , is a political party in Chile . Along with the Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI), it is the more moderate of the two right-wing parties in Chile.

The Renovación Nacional was founded on April 29, 1987 as a collecting party of the right spectrum, from which the UDI under its leader Jaime Guzmán broke away after a short time. Your party line is assigned to conservative economic liberalism . In 2009 she formed the right-wing party alliance Alianza por Chile with the UDI and is significantly involved in the current conservative government alliance Chile Vamos . With Sebastián Piñera she is the first conservative president of Chile since the end of the military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet , whom the party (unlike Piñera himself, who only joined it in 1993) in 1988 in the failed referendum to allow the dictator to continue to rule for eight years as one of the defeated "yes parties".

Since its split in 1988, the Renovación Nacional has been competing for the conservative electorate of the Chilean upper class in tense disputes with its sister party UDI, which is more firmly rooted in the church , ideologically more closed and more populist . Originally the stronger of the two partners, it was overtaken by the UDI around 2000, which since then has been Chile's strongest single party without interruption until 2017. It was not until the parliamentary elections in Chile in 2017 that the RN managed to outstrip its competing allies. In contrast to the UDI with its clearer message, the market-liberal RN has so far hardly managed to mobilize voters from the lower classes.

In Germany, the RN cooperates with the CSU- affiliated Hanns Seidel Foundation .

history

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Renovación Nacional was founded on April 29, 1987 as three right-wing organizations - the National Union Movement (Movimiento de Unión Nacional, MUN), the National Labor Front (Frente Nacional del Trabajo, FNT) and the Independent Democratic Union ( Unión Demócrata Independiente , UDI ) - together in preparation for the 1988 referendum that would determine the continuity or not of the rule of Augusto Pinochet, who had been in power since the 1973 coup. The UDI soon broke off because of its strong support for the referendum and a Pinochet candidacy to run as a separate party, while the remaining National Renewal Party expressed its preference for an open election or a candidate other than Pinochet. However, when Pinochet was named a candidate, the overwhelming majority of the Renovación Nacional supported him.

The party was founded on April 29th with 351 founding members. In this way, the Renovación Nacional was the first political party to be formed in Chile after the ban on political parties that had emerged after the coup was lifted; In December of the same year, 61,167 members, led by Andrés Allamand, joined. The basic idea proclaimed by the party was to create an environment of calm during the return of democracy. The party supported the UDI candidate Joaquín Lavín as the only alliance candidate in the 1999/2000 presidential elections, who received 47.5% of the vote in the first round, but was later defeated by Ricardo Lagos in the second round.

In early 2005, the party initially supported Lavín to run again as the only candidate of the alliance in this year's presidential election. However, in the face of sinking public opinion polls from Lavín, Sebastián Piñera announced his candidacy as a National Renewal candidate to ensure the alliance has two candidates for election. In the first round on December 11th, Piñera received 25.4% of the vote, which was enough to send him to the runoff election with Michelle Bachelet on January 15, 2006. With 46.5% of the vote, Piñera was defeated by Bachelet.

In the parliamentary elections, also on December 11, 2005, the party won 20 out of 120 seats in the House of Representatives as part of the Alliance for Chile and currently holds 7 out of 38 seats in the Senate.

In the parliamentary elections, also on December 13, 2009, the party won 18 out of 120 seats in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies as part of the Coalition for Change and currently has 8 out of 38 seats in the Chilean Senate.

In the 2010 presidential election, Sebastián Piñera was elected President of Chile.

In 2013 Andrés Allamand was the presidential candidate for the primaries, the Renovación Nacional party supported Evelyn Matthei's presidential candidacy for the presidential election, who lost 37% of the vote in the second round.

In January 2014, three MPs (Karla Rubilar, Pedro Browne and Joaquín Godoy) and a senator (Lily Pérez) [10] joined the party and started a political movement called "Amplitude" (Amplitud), which aimed at a new political one To be a party within the alliance. In the internal elections in 2014 of the party, the MP Cristián Monckeberg was elected party president. On August 2, 2014, National Renewal presented its new logo with a blue and red star gradient. In August 2014, MP Gaspar Rivas left the party.

On November 22, 2014, Renovación Nacional drafted a new policy statement at a Doctrinal Council in Pucón, in which the references to the coup of September 11, 1973 were deleted.

On October 4, 2015, Renovación Nacional formed the new center-right coalition Chile Vamos with the Independent Democratic Union (UDI), Political Evolution (Evópoli) and the Independent Regionalist Party (PRI).

In July 2016, the Senator for Renovación Nacional, Manuel José Ossandón, left the party to formulate his presidential candidacy in 2017. The Renovación Nacional supported the presidential candidacy of Sebastián Piñera within the UDI and PRI in the primaries of the center-right coalition Chile Vamos in 2017.

In the 2017 parliamentary elections, Renovación Nacional received 36 seats in the House of Representatives with 17.80% of the vote and 8 seats in the Senate with 20.98% of the vote, making it the most elected party in these elections and to oust its coalition partner, the Independent Democratic Union .

On March 11, 2018, the Renovación Nacional will have 5 ministers, 8 undersecretaries, 5 regional commissioners and 24 provincial governors for the second government of Sebastián Piñera.

Results of the RN in parliamentary elections

Election year	Share of votes		be right
1989	18.3%		1,242,432
1993	16.3%		1,098,852
1997	16.8%		971.903
2001	13.8%		845.865
2005	14.1%		932.422
2009	17.8%		1,178,392
2013	14.9%		928.037
2017	17.8%		1,066,764

Web links

Commons : Renovación Nacional  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ David Craig: Transforming Latin America. The International And Domestic Origins Of Change. University of Pittsburgh Press 2005, ISBN 0-8229-5882-1 , p. 148.
2. ^ Peadar Kirby: Introduction to Latin America. Twenty-First Century Challenges. Sage Publications, London 2003, ISBN 0-7619-7373-7 , p. 157.
3. ^ Marcelo Pollack: The New Right in Chile, 1973–1997. Palgrave Macmillan, London 1999, ISBN 0-333-72473-9 , pp. 161-163.
4. ↑ Klaus G. Binder, Laura Hagl: Five young Chilean councilors visit Bavaria. HSS interview, August 28, 2018, accessed March 28, 2019.