Republican Party (Chile, 1982)

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.