Chilean Political Parties: Ideologies, Supporters, and Key Features
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Party | Ideology | Supporters | Key Features |
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Conservative | Catholic party, clerical, and is the political expression of the Church. | Aristocracy, landowning class, average tenants, mass urban Catholic. | Religious Education, Freedom of Education, Jurisdiction of the Church, Economic Liberalism. |
National | Represents the bourgeoisie of the banking and commerce, are secular Montt-Varismo heirs. | Traders, bankers, industrialists, and plutocrats. | Religious Patronage, Liberal Ideology. |
Liberal | Subject to continuing internal divisions, divided into doctrinal and independent clans. From it came almost all presidential candidates. | Mining, industrial, landowners, lay. | State Teachers, Lay State, Greater Involvement of the political system, Faithful to parliamentary. |
Radical | Represent a broad social spectrum. It attracted the educated class of the time, the animated lead political and social reforms; closely linked to Masonry. | Professional, new agrarian oligarchy, industrial, mining, urban middle class. | State Teachers, Separation of church and state, Represented mesocracy, From 1906 committed to social problems, Greater state intervention. |
Liberal Democratic | Represents the section of the Liberal party supporter of Balmaceda. Adopted a pendulum action, for lack of consistency in ideology. Was dissolved promptly. | Balmaceda, officials, military masses. | Advocated a strong executive, rejected the parliamentary system and participates in the Secular State. |
Liberal Independent | A fraction of the old Liberal party, small and without grassroots support, friend of bribery. | Plutocrats | Secularism and parliamentary. |
Democratic | It originates from a division of radicalism. Represented the left before the appearance of the Socialist Workers Party. Contribute to form the Socialist Worker party. | Middle sectors, petty bourgeoisie, industrial workers, urban workers, nitrate, craftsmen. | Clear changes in the economic and social situation, prevailing democracy, political and economic system, improvement of the life of the worker. |
Worker Socialist | It is formed from the Democratic party founded by Louis E. Recabarren. Pro-Marxist Party, contributes to the formation of the Communist Party. | Workers, intellectuals, port, rail. | Represent the interests of the working class, Change of the political system, promotion of social, economic democracy. |
Communist | Derived from postpartum, inspired by Marxism-Leninism. | Workers, port, railroad, intellectuals, artists. | Social Revolution, End of exploitation of the working class. |
DOP | Political-ideological organization of the working class. |