Social Democrat Radical Party

Social Democrat Radical Party Partido Radical Socialdemócrata
Leader	José Antonio Gómez
Founded	December 27, 1863 (PR) August 18, 1994 (PRSD)
Headquarters	Miraflores 495 Santiago
Youth wing	Juventud Radical
Coalition	Concert of Parties for Democracy
Ideology	Social democracy, Social liberalism, Radicalism, Secularism
Political position	Centre-left
International affiliation	Socialist International
Official colours	Azure and Red
Chamber of Deputies	5 / 120
Senate	1 / 38
Local government	11 / 345
Website
http://www.partidoradical.cl/
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The Social Democratic Radical Party (Partido Radical Socialdemócrata) is a social democratic party in Chile. The party is a member of Socialist International.

The party was founded on August 18, 1994, out of a union between the Radical Party and the Party of Social Democracy, both of which had received poor results in the parliamentary elections.

The party supported Ricardo Lagos in the 1999/2000 presidential elections, who won 48.0% in the first round and was elected with 51.3% in the second round. At the last legislative elections, 16 December 2001, the party won as part of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy 6 out of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and no seats in the Senate. This changed at the 2005 elections to 7 and 1, respectively. In 2009, it won 5 congress seats and 1 senate seat.

See also

• List of political parties in Chile
• Liberalism
• Contributions to liberal theory
• Liberalism worldwide
• List of liberal parties
• Liberal democracy
• Radicalism
• Liberalism and radicalism in Chile
• Social liberalism

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Library of Congress Country Studies.

External links

• Official site