Evópoli

Political Evolution (Spanish: Evolución Política), also known in Spanish by its shorthand Evópoli, is a Chilean centre-right[10] political party, founded in 2012. The party defines itself as a liberal platform for the people who look for a "modern centre-right who proposes as the central axis of their proposal the appreciation of diversity, the emphasis on encouraging local communities and the pursuit of social justice".[11]

Political Evolution
Evolución Política
PresidentGloria Hutt Hesse
Secretary-GeneralJuan Carlos González
Chief of DeputiesFrancisco Undurraga
Chief of SenatorsLuciano Cruz-Coke
Founded12 December 2012
HeadquartersAlberto Magno 1428, Providencia, Santiago
Youth wingJuventud Evópoli
National affiliationChile Vamos[1]
Membership (2020)17,744[2]
IdeologyLiberalism[3]
Economic liberalism[4]
Conservative liberalism[5]
Political positionCentre-right[6][5]
Regional affiliationLiberal Network for Latin America[7]
International affiliationLiberal International[8](Juventud Evopoli is member of IFLRY)[9]
Chamber of Deputies
4 / 155
Senate
3 / 50
Regional boards
12 / 302
Mayors
1 / 345
Communal Councils
61 / 2,252
Website
www.evopoli.cl

History

Felipe Kast, Luciano Cruz-Coke, Harald Beyer and Juan Sebastián Montes founded the movement on 12 December 2012.[11]

Evópoli agreed to participate in the primary parliamentary elections of National Renewal in 2013.[12] Of the three candidates presented to the primaries, Eduardo Cuevas was the winner in the 19th district (Independencia and Recoleta).[13] Evópoli participated in the parliamentary elections with five candidates for parliament, including Cuevas (district 19) and Felipe Kast (District 22). However, the senatorial candidacy of Luciano Cruz-Coke for the Antofagasta Region failed to materialize, as the Socialist Party challenged his candidacy on the Electoral Court (Tricel), considering that it was applicable the restriction on State ministers, which must resign at least a year before they could become parliamentary candidates.[14] On 12 September, the Tricel annulled the candidacy of Cruz-Coke.[15]

For the presidential election of that year, Evópoli supported the Alliance candidate, Evelyn Matthei. Kast joined her command in the second round.[16] In the parliamentary elections of 2013, Felipe Kast was elected deputy for the district 22 (Santiago).

On 18 December of that year, 150 advisers joined its ranks, including ministers Pedro Pablo Errázuriz and Roberto Ampuero.[17]

The 12 April 2014 General Council of Evópoli announced the decision to become a political party. On the same occasion María Francisca Correa was elected as president; Luciano Cruz-Coke, Pedro Pablo Errázuriz, Francisco Irarrázaval, Cecilia María Vasallo and Andrés Molina were elected vice presidents, and Jorge Saint Jean was appointed as secretary general.[18] The founding charter of the party was signed on 21 March 2015, and the process of registration with the Electoral Service of Chile began.[19]

Subsequently, on 24 July 2015, was published in the Official Gazette, the extract of the party constitution, which Evópoli fell into the category of "party in formation" and it should get the necessary notarized signatures required by law to be formally registered as a political party under Chilean law, for each region.[20]

On 6 May 2018, Hernán Larraín Matte was elected president of the party, replacing Francisco Undurraga.[21] Larraín the son of current Minister of Justice Hernán Larraín and brother of filmmaker Pablo Larraín.

In face of the April 2021 "mega-election" consisting of the 2021 Chilean Constitutional Convention election, the 2021 Chilean regional elections and the 2021 Chilean municipal elections, Evópoli was the party that borrowed the most from banks to finance its campaigns. This led The Clinic to label the party "the favourite of the banks".[22]

Gloria Hutt was elected president of the party in October 2022.[23] The election of Hutt and the loss of her rival Luciano Cruz-Coke was considered by Ex-Ante a blow against the founding group of the party including Felipe Kast.[23] In political terms the victory of Hutt was interpreted as the trumph of liberalism over the more traditional right-wing approach of Cruz-Coke.[23] Another change with Hutt was that the party would have a full-time leader instead of one that is an elected official.[23] Ignacio Briones, a supporter of Hutt, did also perform well being elected party councellor with a plurality of votes in Santiago Metropolitan Region.[23] Of the party's 17,700 registered members that were eligible to vote 1402 voted.[23]

Political position

Sociologists like Stéphanie Alenda have described to Evópoli as a postmaterial party, according the categories of the sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset.[24]

Evópoli is a centre-right party that shows a variety of liberal tendencies, including classical liberalism,[25] social liberalism,[26] and conservative liberalism.[27]

Evópoli is in favor of same-sex marriage, in contrast from other parties within the Chile Vamos coalition.[28]

Presidential candidates

The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by Political Evolution. (Information gathered from the Archive of Chilean Elections).

Elections results

Senate
Election year # of
overall votes		  % of
overall vote		 # of
overall seats won		 +/–
2017 67,801 4.07
2 / 43
 Increase 2
2021 368,024 7.90
3 / 43
 Increase 1

Chamber of deputies
Election year # of
overall votes		  % of
overall vote		 # of
overall seats won		 +/–
2017 255,221 4.26
6 / 155
 Increase 5
2021 221,284 3.50
4 / 155
 Decrease 2

References
  1. "UDI, RN, PRI y Evópoli firman acuerdo para la creación de una nueva coalición política". La Tercera. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  2. "Elecciones 2021".
  3. Renato Garin, ed. (2019). La gran colusión: Libre mercado a la chilena [The Great Collusion: Chilean Free Market] (in Spanish). Editorial Catalonia. ISBN 9789563247664. ... derecha liberal Evópoli, mientras que sus hermanos Pablo y Juan de Dios son los creadores de la exitosa productora audiovisual Fábula. Gabriel Ruiz-Tagle también fue ministro de Piñera, en el primer mandato, ejerciendo como primer ... [... liberal right Evopoli, while his brothers Pablo and John of God are the creators of the successful audiovisual producer Fabula. Gabriel Ruiz-Tagle was also Minister of Piano in the first term, exercising as first ...]
  4. Marcela Ramos (2020-01-07). "Adelanto del libro "Anatomía de la derecha chilena: Estado, mercado y valores en tiempos de cambios"". CIPER Chile. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
  5. "Economic and political outline Chile". Santandertrade.com. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  6. "Evópoli es el único partido de centroderecha fundado en democracia y con parlamentarios". www.t13.cl. 7 December 2017.
  7. "RELIAL Red Liberal de America Latina - Relial". relial.org.
  8. Twitter. May 4, 2023 https://twitter.com/liberalinternat/status/1654584723320995846?t=exx3-dDiutvrJpDhGp_ygw&s=19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. "Juventud Evópoli se incorpora a la Federación Liberal Internacional". Evopoli. November 26, 2018.
  10. "Evópoli: El proyecto político de la centroderecha está, culturalmente, muy vivo". Cooperativa.cl.
  11. "Felipe Kast lanza nuevo movimiento político de centroderecha". EMOL (in Spanish). 13 December 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  12. "Kast y Cruz-Coke presentaron a los candidatos a diputado de Evópoli". ADN Radio (in Spanish). 23 March 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  13. "Cuevas de Evopoli se impone en primaria y competiría por RN para diputado en Independencia y Recoleta". Publimetro (in Spanish). 30 June 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
  14. "PS solicitará al Tricel que impugne candidatura senatorial de Luciano Cruz-Coke". EMOL (in Spanish). 1 September 2013. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
  15. "TRICEL deja "sin efecto" candidatura al Senado de Luciano Cruz-Coke". Diario Uchile (in Spanish). 12 September 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
  16. "Evópoli y apoyo a Matthei: "Evelyn va a abrir la cancha en la Alianza"". EMOL (in Spanish). 11 August 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  17. "Evolución Política cumple un año desde su creación y suma 150 nuevos consejeros a sus filas". Diario Financiero (in Spanish). 19 December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  18. "Evópoli decide ser partido político y elige a María Francisca Correa como su presidenta". EMOL (in Spanish). 12 April 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  19. "Evópoli se constituye como partido político y Felipe Kast asume como nuevo presidente". La Tercera (in Spanish). 21 March 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  20. Servicio Electoral de Chile (24 July 2015). "Constitución partido político en formación "Evolución Política"". LeyChile (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  21. "Hernán Larraín Matte es el nuevo presidente de Evópoli". Cooperativa.cl.
  22. "Créditos para campañas: Evópoli es el favorito de la banca, con préstamos por $1.138 millones". The Clinic. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  23. "La victoria de Gloria Hutt sobre Cruz-Coke: el trasfondo de la primera derrota interna de Felipe Kast en Evópoli". Ex-Ante (in Spanish). 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  24. Alenda 2020, p. 162.
  25. "Un manifiesto liberal". 24 September 2018.
  26. "Liberalismo social, la apuesta de Evópoli para levantar la candidatura de Briones a la Moneda". 20 January 2021.
  27. "Nuestra historia". Evopoli.
  28. "Felipe Kast reafirma compromiso con el matrimonio igualitario en cita con el Movilh – Movilh Chile".

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