Regionalist Action Party of Chile

Regionalist Action Party of Chile Partido de Acción Regionalista de Chile

Founded	18 December 2003
Dissolved	4 July 2006
Merged into	Independent Regionalist Party
Headquarters	Serrano 746, Iquique
Ideology	Regionalism
Website
http://regiones.ya.st/

Regionalist Action Party of Chile (in Spanish: Partido de Acción Regionalista de Chile), was a political party in Chile. Operated in only the regions I, II and III in the northern parts of the country. In the 2004 municipal elections the party presented 13 candidates and got 1,199 votes (0.02% of votes nationwide). The bulk of the votes came from the 2nd District of Region I, were the party got 600 votes. In the 2005 elections, the 2nd District of Region I elected PAR member Marta Isasi as deputy, the only party member elected to Congress.

The leader of the party was the former socialist Jorge Soria, the former mayor of Iquique, who surprised many in the 2005 Chilean presidential election by supporting Sebastián Piñera, the center-right candidate. However, Soria has been suspended from his post because of an investigation of alleged embezzlement of municipal funds. Without him, the party collapsed and its only representative in the Chamber of Deputies, Marta Isasi, joined the National Renewal caucus, although she is still listed as belonging to the PAR.

On 4 July 2006 the PAR merged with the National Alliance of Independents to form the Regionalist Party of Independents.

External links

PAR website

Political parties in Chile

Chamber of Deputies	Independent Democratic Union² (29) Christian Democratic Party¹ (21) Socialist Party of Chile¹ (16) National Renewal² (15) Party for Democracy¹ (15) Communist Party of Chile¹ (6) Social Democrat Radical Party¹ (6) Amplitude (2) Citizen Left¹ (1) Liberal Party of Chile³ (1) Political Evolution (1) Independents List A¹ (2) List J² (1) out of pact (2)

Senate	Independent Democratic Union² (8) Christian Democratic Party¹ (6) National Renewal² (6) Party for Democracy¹ (6) Socialist Party of Chile¹ (6) Amplitude (1) Broad Social Movement¹ (1) Independents List A¹ (2) out of pact (1)

Unrepresented	Progressive Party³ Green Ecologist Party⁴ Equality Party⁴ Humanist Party⁵ Independent Regionalist Party

Political Coalitions	Nueva Mayoría (Concertación) Chile Vamos (Alianza) If You Want It, Chile Changes New Constitution for Chile Everyone to La Moneda

Notes:¹²³⁴⁵Numbers denote party membership of Political Coalitions, 1 is for the Nueva Mayoría, 2 is for Chile Vamos, 3 is for If You Want It, Chile Changes, 4 is for New Constitution for Chile, 5 is for Everyone to La Moneda.

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