This Friday Amarillos por Chile, the group that was formed with members of the center-left who were in favor of Rejection in the last exit plebiscite, was officially registered as a political party.
To achieve this, before the Electoral Service (Servel) they had to arrive with at least 100 signatures to constitute themselves, which they achieved in a short time because several had already announced that they would join the community. Even many names militated in other parties, but due to different reasons they ended up arriving at Amarillos.
They are the so-called “ex”, people linked to politics who renounced their former militancy -some years ago- to become an official part of the party led by the writer Cristián Warnken.
For example, there are those who resigned from the DC to join the Amarillos, such as former senator Soledad Alvear, José Pablo Arellano (former minister of education), or René Cortázar (former minister), who was the last to resign and join the Amarillos.
There are also other prominent names, such as Luis Felipe Cristi (businessman), José de Gregorio (former president of the Central Bank), Samuel Donoso (former PPD secretary), Ana Luz Durán (USS dean), Carolina Echeverría (former undersecretary), Ricardo Escobar (former director of SII ), Jaime Etcheverry (former minister), Pedro García (former ISP director), Andrés Jouannet (deputy), Clemente Pérez (former director of Metro and author of the already mythical phrase “Cabros, this did not catch on” during the social outbreak), Fulvio Rossi ( former senator), among others.
From television other names were also added, such as the former director of the Mega youth program, Mekano, and former director of the Viña del Mar Festival, Álex Hernández.
Your mission statement
“We consider ourselves the continuators of the Coalition” they indicated in the Declaration of Principles of the Yellow Movement Party for Chile.
From the conglomeration they position themselves as “a democratic and reforming party that aspires to contribute to making Chile a Republic organized based on the principles and mechanisms of the representative democratic system,” according to ex-ante who had access to the document.
The ten-page text gives an account of the pillars that seek to lay the foundation for the community with its creation, on issues such as: the separation and autonomy of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial powers, the defense and expansion of individual freedoms, the conjugation of the role of the State, the market and civil society in “associative and community expressions”.
They indicate that they are located in the space of “democratic reformism”, this after the triumph of Rejection, an option supported by the conglomerate, in the last constituent process.
“The Yellow Movement for Chile emerges as a new party, the product of a citizen movement that opposed a Constitutional proposal that lacked the necessary characteristics to unite Chilean men and women.”
In the same document they explicitly state the need for a new Constitution “It is necessary to return to reality, without hesitation, generate a new Constitution that sets aside excesses and fragmentation and that achieves a great agreement around a social, sensible text advanced and fully democratic”.
In addition, they indicated that they consider themselves as continuators of the Coalition.
“We will be a modern, non-bureaucratic party that will use new technologies to be in permanent consultation with its adherents, and collect the broadest visions that arise in social life. However, we are not a party without history, we consider ourselves a continuation, in the face of the new historical challenges, of what was done by the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia, which successfully led the exit from the dictatorship and led the country during the twenty years of greatest economic and social progress in the history of Chile, with mistakes and limits, by the way, like all human work”.
Among the first 100 signatories to constitute Amarillos por Chile and who ascribe to the manifesto are: Soledad Alvear (former senator), José Pablo Arellano (former minister of education), Tomás Aylwin (spokesperson for Amarillo), Álvaro Clarke (former superintendent of securities and insurance ), René Cortázar (former minister), Luis Felipe Cristi (businessman), José de Gregorio (former president of the Central Bank), Samuel Donoso (former secretary of the PPD), Ana Luz Durán (dean of the USS), Carolina Echeverría (former undersecretary), Ricardo Escobar (former director of SII), Jaime Etcheverry (former minister), Pedro García (former ISP director), Andrés Jouannet (deputy), Clemente Pérez (former Metro director), Fulvio Rossi (former senator), among others.
Declaration of Principles of the Party “Yellow Movement for Chile”
