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26-655: On January 11, 2021, the Republican Party, together with Chile Vamos , registered a list called "Vamos por Chile" for the Constitutional Convention election , thus being the only right-wing list versus several left-wing lists. This partnership has generated an impact within the same coalition, especially the candidate to conventional district 10 Teresa Marinovic (entering as a separate quota of National Renewal ), which according to people of National Renewal and Political Evolution , his name did not appear in any of

52-417: A frontrunner in the primary. Sichel is considered the favourite candidate of the private sector and is supported in his presidential campaign by prominent business figures. In the presidential election on 21 November 2021, Sichel received 898,510 (12.79%) of votes cast, ranked fourth out of seven candidates, and did not qualify for the second round. He supported the far-right candidate José Antonio Kast in

78-400: A primary of the centre-right coalition Chile Podemos Más (previously Chile Vamos ) for the 2021 Chilean presidential election . On 18 July 2021, he won the coalition's primary and became its presidential candidate. He received 49% of the vote, beating three other candidates including Joaquín Lavín , who previously ran in the 1999 and 2005 presidential elections and was considered

104-457: Is a Chilean lawyer, professor, mayor elect of Ñuñoa , ex minister of State and politician who served as president of the Banco del Estado de Chile ( BancoEstado ) from June 2020 until December 2020. He also previously served as Minister of Social Development and Family and executive vice president of Corfo under the second government of Sebastián Piñera . He was an independent candidate in

130-534: Is possible). On August 20, 2021, the name of the coalition was officially changed to " Chile Podemos Más " ("Chile can do more"). The impact of the 2019-20 Chilean protests and the management of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a series of differences and frictions between the different parties of Chile Vamos . In late 2019, UDI froze for a few months their membership with the coalition because of major disagreements with some policies of their fellow parties. For

156-483: The 2021 Chilean presidential election who ran under the centre-right Chile Podemos Más coalition. In 2010, he was one of the founding members of El Dínamo , an online newspaper on topics such as politics, culture, and sports. Born in Santiago , his parents are Antonio Alejandro José Sichel Poblete and Ana María Ramírez Alvarado. His birth name was registered as Sebastián Sichel , but his paternal surname

182-459: The 2021 Constitutional Convention election , Chile Vamos and the Republican Party agreed to participate in a joint list called Vamos por Chile (Spanish for "Let's go for Chile") as a way to ensure the combined list could secure the third of seats needed in the Constitutional Convention to veto proposals to be included in the new Constitution of Chile . The single list, however, had

208-533: The Independent Regionalist Party so that it would join the coalition, which concluded in December 2014 with the creation of a new coalition agreed to contest the municipal elections of 2016, and the presidential, parliamentary and regional councilors elections of 2017. The new coalition was made official on January 29, 2015, and the process of finding a name for the new referent began. In August 2015,

234-656: The 2021 parliamentary election, the coalition was renamed Chile Podemos Más (stylized Chile Podemos + , Spanish for "Chile we can (do) more"). On August 2, 2014, during the National Council of National Renewal in Santiago, the party chairman Cristián Monckeberg called his group together with the UDI and then political movement Evópoli to refound the Alliance under the name Coalition for Freedom . Negotiations were also held with

260-627: The Alexander Fleming Lyceum. Subsequently, he obtained a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) where he also obtained his master's degree in public law. Sichel Ramírez was a professor of constitutional law at the San Sebastián University from 2016 to 2018. In 2008, he married the journalist Bárbara Encina. They have three children. In the 2013 parliamentary elections , he ran for

286-567: The Republican Party and independents registered with the Chilean Electoral Service as the coalition Christian Social Front for the parliamentary elections of November of that same year, while in the elections of regional councilors they will each go on an individual list. The coalition formally ceased to exist in February 2022 when the PCC did not reach enough votes to maintain its legality. It

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312-482: The first member of the Citizens party to hold public office. He took command of the lithium exploitation contracts signed by his predecessor Eduardo Bitran with the company SQM . On 13 June 2019, he became Minister of Social Development and Family , after the cabinet change announced by President Piñera. After the crisis experienced within the Citizens party during the election of its leadership, Sichel resigned from

338-402: The foundation received $ 225,000 in 2017 from Open Society Foundations , established by Hungarian-American investor George Soros , for a two-year term. In 2016, Plural proposed eliminating the law that prohibits hiring more than 15% foreign employees. Sichel argued that, in the immigration debate, Chile Vamos had shown "irresponsibility," creating "an anti-immigration climate that is exactly

364-599: The four member parties agreed to submit two lists for the election of councilors in 2016: one consisting of RN and UDI, and the other composed of the PRI and Evópoli. The same month, the name " Levantemos " ("Let's get up") emerged as the name that generated greater consensus within the coalition as its mark. However, the name was challenged by the NGO Desafío Levantemos Chile , which objected to similarities with its own name and logo. The opposition bloc responded that

390-485: The idea of making a presidential primary together with Chile Vamos while several of the ruling party discussed whether the incorporation of the Republican Party harmed them more than favoring them and whether it was prudent to continue with the pact called "Vamos por Chile" in presidential primaries and in the parliamentary elections. Finally, on 6 August 2021, the Christian Conservative Party together with

416-436: The list at that time— and that he did not want to compete on the same list with someone who had values contrary to those of her. However, his resignation required the signature of all the presidents of the parties that made up Vamos por Chile so his name would appear in the same way on the ballot and he decided to campaign in the same way. After the results obtained in the mega elections of May 2021, José Antonio Kast discarded

442-450: The name of the coalition was not yet formalized and that " Levantemos " was only one of the options to consider. The name " Chile Vamos " was decided on 4 October 2015. Following the election of Sebastián Sichel as the coalition's candidate during the 2021 presidential primaries , Chile Vamos has been considering changing the name of the coalition, with most suggestions revolving around Sichel's campaign slogan " Se puede " (It

468-496: The opposite of what the country needs today. (...) The study shows that many are making blunders to capture votes without addressing the issue seriously. (...) Economic growth is unfeasible without immigration as one of the vectors driving that growth." On 19 November 2017, he decided to publicly support Sebastián Piñera , distancing himself from Andrés Velasco . On 2 May 2018, during the second government of President Piñera, he became executive vice president of Corfo , becoming

494-615: The party and became one of the founders of the Libres ("Free") political movement in March 2019. The new political movement was led by ex-members of Citizens who distanced themselves from Andrés Velasco. He remained in the position of Minister of Social Development and Family until 4 June 2020, when he was reassigned by Piñera as president of BancoEstado . Sichel remained BancoEstado's president until December 2020. He shortly after announced his desire to participate as an independent candidate in

520-683: The position of deputy for the districts of Las Condes , Vitacura and Lo Barnechea . His bid was supported by the Public Force movement . The party later became the Citizens party ( Ciudadanos ), which was founded by Andrés Velasco , a former minister of Michelle Bachelet . In a controversial move, he resigned from the Christian Democratic Party in 2015, distancing himself from emblematic figures such as Claudio Orrego , whose presidential candidacy Sichel worked for in 2013. In 2016, he

546-504: The second round. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile and the high level of unemployment in the country, on 18 May 2020, President Sebastián Piñera announced from inside La Moneda the delivery of a family basket in aid for the entire middle class. Sichel, in his position as Minister of Social Development and Family, had to publicly correct the president's announcement, maintaining that

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572-418: The thirteen candidates that the Republican Party filed in the general councils of each group. The controversy deepened when his partner list Sylvia Eyzaguirre presented his resignation to his candidacy as a constituent of the president of National Renewal Rafael Prohens , arguing that it does not meet the conditions specified at the time of agreeing to be a candidate —alluding to Marinovic was not considered in

598-707: The worst electoral result for any right-wing alliance since the reestablishment of democracy in Chile. Vamos por Chile got 20% of the votes and only 37 of the 155 seats in the Convention. The coalition has a political council with 47 members: 16 independents, 10 from National Renewal, 10 from the Independent Democratic Union, 6 from Political Evolution and 5 from the Independent Regionalist Party. Sebasti%C3%A1n Sichel Sebastián Iglesias Sichel Ramírez (born 30 July 1977)

624-527: Was changed to Iglesias after his mother married Saúl Iglesias. When Sebastián Iglesias was 11 years old, he learned from his grandfather that Saúl Iglesias was not his father. He then met his biological father for the first time at age 30 and changed his paternal surname back to Sichel , but retained Iglesias as his middle name out of affection. He studied at the María Goretti Lyceum, in Concón , and

650-554: Was made up of the following parties: Chile Vamos Chile Vamos (Spanish for "Let's go Chile") is a centre-right to right-wing political coalition of three political parties in Chile . The coalition was created on 29 January 2015 by the general secretaries of the Independent Democrat Union (UDI), National Renewal (RN), Democratic Independent Regionalist Party (PRI) and Political Evolution (Evópoli). For

676-516: Was on the verge of becoming a presidential candidate of the Citizens party for the 2017 Chilean general election . From 2013 to 2018, he served as the executive president of the Plural Chile Study Center, representing it in hearings regulated by lobbying legislation. He was also the executive director of the public issues business network Giro País and a partner at Paréntesis Comunicaciones. During Sichel's presidency at Plural Chile,

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