Citizens (Chilean political party)

Citizens (Spanish: Ciudadanos pronounced [sjuðaˈðanos], called Public Force between 2013 and 2015) was a Chilean political party founded in 2013, with members comprising militants and independents of the center and center-left whose beliefs did not align with New Majority or Chile Vamos.

[7][5] On August 15, 2015, the movement held a vote, in which 99.17% of the participants agreed that Public Force should become a political party, with Alex Olivares to serve as the new national coordinator.

On December 31, 2015, the extract of the party's constitution was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Chile, starting the period for collecting signatures and achieve the legality by the Electoral Service.

On April 27, 2017, the Chilean Electoral Service announced that the party would be dissolved for failing to meet the minimum of necessary members in three contiguous or eight discontinuous regions to maintain its legal status.

On February 3, 2022, the Chilean Electoral Service announced the party would be dissolved because it did not receive at least 5% of the votes in the 2021 parliamentary elections to maintain its legality.