Patriotic Union (Chile)

Patriotic Union Unión Patriótica
President	Eduardo Artés
General Secretary	Luis Aravena Egaña
Founded	14 September 2015 (2015-09-14)
Legalised	24 April 2016 (2016-04-24)
Dissolved	3 February 2022 (2022-02-03)
Membership (2021)	33,246[1]
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism Stalinism[2] Anti-revisionism Socialist patriotism Anti-Zionism Anti-imperialism
Political position	Far-left[3][4][5]
Colors	Red and Blue
Website
http://unionpatriotica.cl/
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Patriotic Union (Spanish: Unión Patriótica, UPA) was a far-left Chilean political party. It was founded in September 2015 and is led by Eduardo Artés, general secretary of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action).[6]

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.[7]

It was declared as an anti-imperialist, progressive, patriotic and populist party.[8] Its leader has expressed sympathy with the government of North Korea and the government of President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.[9][10]

For the 2017 elections, the party proclaimed Artés as its presidential candidate, where he finished in seventh place in the first round.[11] The party was dissolved in 2018 for failing to get a minimum percentage of the vote. It was reregistered in 2019, but dissolved again in February 2022 after failing to obtain at least 5% of the vote in the 2021 parliamentary elections.[12]

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

1. "Total afiliados actualizados por partidos políticos". Servicio Electoral de Chile (in Spanish). October 31, 2021. Archived from the original on December 19, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
2. "La suerte está echada: Nueve candidatos competirán por la Presidencia de Chile en noviembre". Cooperativa.cl.
3. Roberto Bruna Henríquez (16 December 2021). "Yo no voto, me organizo: una radiografía a la ultraizquierda chilena". El Mostrador (in Spanish).
4. Leonardo Estradé-Brancoli (27 February 2020). "Antecedente Histórico-Ideológico, su Ubicación y Adhesión por parte de los partidos Políticos Chilenos". p. 9.
5. Noticias, C. H. V. "Elección de constituyentes: Mira acá cuáles son la posiciones ideológicas de las 70 listas". CHV Noticias. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
6. ADN Radio. "Presidenciable de Unión Patriótica: "Chile como está, va a la bancarrota"" (in Spanish). August 23, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
7. Servel. "Elecciones de Concejales 2016" (in Spanish). 2016. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
8. LeyChile. "Extracto escritura de constitución partido político en formación "Unión Patriótica"" (in Spanish). October 2, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
9. 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.
10. BiobioChile (24 August 2017). "Eduardo Artés, candidato presidencial: Corea del Norte es una democracia popular" (in Spanish). August 24, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
11. 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.
12. T13 (7 February 2022). "Los 12 partidos que fueron disueltos por el Servel tras la última elección". Teletrece. Retrieved 2022-04-17.

External links

• Unión Patriótica (Chile) (in Spanish)