| Yellows for Chile | |
| Native Name: | Amarillos por Chile |
| Abbreviation: | AxCh |
| President: | Andrés Jouannet |
| Leader1 Title: | Vice Presidents |
| Leader1 Name: | Jaime Abedrapo Pilar Peña Gonzalo Rojas-May Lucía Morales Paola Marín Fernando Gipoulou[1] |
| General Secretary: | Isidro Solís |
| Leader2 Title: | Prosecretary |
| Leader2 Name: | Bernardita Soto |
| Founder: | Cristián Warnken |
| Split: | Party for Democracy Christian Democratic Party |
| Ideology: | Concertacionism[2] Laguism[3] [4] [5] Christian humanism[6] [7] Social liberalism[8] Social democracy[9] Welfare state[10] Catch-all |
| Headquarters: | Santiago de Chile |
| Colours: | Yellow Blue |
| Position: | Centre[11] [12] |
| Slogan: | «Reforms and Democracy» [13] |
| Affiliation1 Title: | Related institutions |
| Affiliation1: | Fundación Amarillos por Chile[14] |
| Seats1 Title: | Chamber of Deputies |
| Seats2 Title: | Senate |
| Website: | amarillosxchile.cl |
| Country: | Chile |
Amarillos por Chile, sometimes written Amarillos x Chile (AxCh), is a political movement and party in Chile which was established with the goal to back away the Constitutional Convention[15] (2021−2022) led by that country's left-wing (Broad Front, Communist Party and activists).[16]
It was founded in 2022 by Cristián Warnken and brings together prominent personalities in the country, including businessmen, former parliamentarians, and former politicians from the defunct Concertación coalition, particularly from the Party for Democracy (PPD) and Christian Democratic Party (PDC). The movement emerged as a response to certain proposals of the Constitutional Convention, which it viewed as "refoundational".[17] [18]
Once established as a party, Amarillos reunited political figures from centre-left and centre-right ―like Mario Waissbluth[19] and Jaime Mañalich[20] ―, which installed this organization as a big-tent party focused in the experience of the Concertación (coalition of the Chilean post-dictatorial period) (1988−2013).
The movement was born out of columns and letters that Warnken wrote in the radio station Pauta FM and in the newspaper El Mercurio. One such letter, titled "Yellow letter to my children", was published on 27 November 2021. In it, Warnken recounted an incident in Isla Negra where a group of young people yelled "amarillo" and "facho" at him. He drew on the term "amarillo", which had been used in the 1970s to discredit reformists. Patricio Fernández had previously updated the term in a column for The Clinic in July 2018.[21] Warnken's column "Letter to all the yellow bases in the country" was published in Pauta on 6 February 2022, and served as the catalyst for the movement's founding.[22]
On 23 September 2022, Amarillos por Chile presented its founding manifesto as a political party, along with its provisional directive.[23] The first 100 members were also introduced, consisting mainly of former members and politicians from the PPD and PDC. On 21 October 2022, the Electoral Service (Servel) declared the group as "in formation".[24]
List of political parties in Chile