Broad Left Movement

It was commenced in 2011 by several social actors belonging to the "extra-parliamentary left" as well as other former members of the Concertacion coalition that ruled Chile from 1990 to 2010.

[1] The founding members of the movement included presidential candidate Jorge Arrate and former deputies Bosco Parra and Pedro Felipe Ramírez.

Deputy Sergio Aguiló, joined the movement after tendering the resignation from Socialist Party of Chile.

[2][3][4] During the year 2012, the movement started to get divided, since a part of it, headed by Aguiló and Ramírez, approached the Radical Party.

[8][9][10] The remaining part of the movement, led by Eduardo Giesen, Francisco Carreras, Santiago Trincado, Paulina Fuenzalida and Luis Alorda joined the Todos a La Moneda pact and for the 2013 presidential election supported the candidacy of Marcel Claude, who won 2.81% of the votes.