Amarillos por Chile
Yellows for Chile Amarillos por Chile | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | AxCh |
| President | Andrés Jouannet |
| General Secretary | Isidro Solís |
| Vice Presidents | Jaime Abedrapo Pilar Peña Gonzalo Rojas-May Lucía Morales Paola Marín Fernando Gipoulou |
| Prosecretary | Bernardita Soto |
| Founder | Cristián Warnken |
| Founded | 18 February 2022 |
| Split from | Party for Democracy Christian Democratic Party |
| Headquarters | Santiago de Chile |
| Ideology | Concertacionism Laguism Christian humanism Social liberalism Social democracy Catch-all |
| Political position | Centre |
| Related institutions | Fundación Amarillos por Chile |
| Colours | Yellow Blue |
| Slogan | «Reforms and Democracy» (Spanish: «Reformas y Democracia») |
| Chamber of Deputies | 1 / 155 |
| Senate | 0 / 43 |
| Website | |
| amarillosxchile.cl | |
Amarillos por Chile (lit. 'Yellows for Chile'), sometimes written Amarillos x Chile (AxCh), is a political movement and party in Chile which was established with the goal to stop the Constitutional Convention.
It was founded in 2022 by Cristián Warnken and brings together prominent personalities in the country, including businessmen, former parliamentarians, and former politicians from the defunct Concertación coalition, particularly from the Party for Democracy (PPD) and Christian Democratic Party (PDC). The movement emerged as a response to certain proposals of the Constitutional Convention, which it viewed as "refoundational".
Once established as a party, Amarillos reunited political figures from centre-left and centre-right ―like Mario Waissbluth and Jaime Mañalich―, which installed this organization as a big-tent party focused in the experience of the Concertación (coalition of the Chilean post-dictatorial period) (1988−2013).