Republican Party Partido Republicano | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1982 |
| Dissolved | 1987 |
| Merged into | Liberal-Republican Union |
| Headquarters | Santiago, Chile |
| Ideology | Liberalism |
| Political position | Centre to centre-right |
The Republican Party or Republican Right (Spanish: Partido Republicano/Derecha Republicana) —also known as Republican Democratic Right (Spanish: Derecha Democrática Republicana)—[1] was a Chilean centre-right political party existing from 1982 to 1987 during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Its origins date back to late October 1982, when a group of politicians from the National Party founded the Center for Analysis of National and International Reality. His goal was to provide a basis for the formation of a right-wing democratic party, inspired by modern liberalism and respectful of human rights. This would give rise to a party whose name would be Republican Right, led by the ex-conservative Julio Subercaseaux and ex-liberals Hugo Zepeda Barrios and Armando Jaramillo Lyon.[2]
The party was among the founding members of the Democratic Alliance on August 6, 1983, having previously signed the Democratic Manifesto of March 14 of that year.[3] In October 1984, it changed its name to the Republican Party after entry of the Liberal Party to the coalition. Both merged in 1987 to form the Liberal-Republican Union.[4]