Regionalist Action Party of Chile
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| Partido de Acción Regionalista de Chile | |
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| Leader | Jorge Soria |
| Founded | December 18, 2003 |
| Headquarters | Serrano 746, Iquique |
| Political ideology | centrist |
| International affiliation | none |
| Website | http://regiones.ya.st/ |
Regionalist Action Party of Chile (in Spanish: Partido de Acción Regionalista de Chile), a political party in Chile. Operates in only the regions I, II and III in the northern parts of the country.
The current president of the party is ex-socialist Jorge Soria, the former mayor of Iquique, who surprised many in the 2005 Chilean presidential election by supporting Sebastián Piñera, the center-right candidate.
In the 2004 municipal elections the party presented 13 candidates and got 1,199 votes (0.02% of votes nationwide). None of the candidates of the party got elected. The bulk of the votes came from the 2nd District of Region I, were the party got 600 votes.
