Women's Party of Chile

[1] In 1951, the group fractured when De la Cruz tried to impose her favored candidate for the presidency of the party in Magallanes Region.

The group headed by Nery Hamuy formed the Progressive Women's Party.

In 1952, the party supported Carlos Ibáñez del Campo and tipped the scales in his favor within women, who were voting for the first time.

In the parliamentary elections of 1953 a female deputy was elected, and in the by-election to choose the successor of Carlos Ibáñez, María de la Cruz became the first female senator of Chile, but was later disqualified by the rest of the Senate.

[2] María de la Cruz, in the midst of an anti-Peronist movement in Chilean politics,[3] was discharged from her position as senator for these criminal acts, although the Courts later declared her innocent.