Chile Vamos

Chile Vamos (Spanish for "Let's go Chile") is a centre-right to right-wing political coalition of three political parties in Chile. The coalition was created on 29 January 2015 by the general secretaries of the Independent Democrat Union (UDI), National Renewal (RN), Democratic Independent Regionalist Party (PRI) and Political Evolution (Evópoli).

For the 2021 parliamentary election, the coalition was renamed Chile Podemos Más (stylized Chile Podemos +, Spanish for "Chile we can (do) more").

On August 2, 2014, during the National Council of National Renewal in Santiago, the party chairman Cristián Monckeberg called his group together with the UDI and then political movement Evópoli to refound the Alliance under the name Coalition for Freedom. Negotiations were also held with the Independent Regionalist Party so that it would join the coalition, which concluded in December 2014 with the creation of a new coalition agreed to contest the municipal elections of 2016, and the presidential, parliamentary and regional councilors elections of 2017.

The new coalition was made official on January 29, 2015, and the process of finding a name for the new referent began.

In August 2015, the four member parties agreed to submit two lists for the election of councilors in 2016: one consisting of RN and UDI, and the other composed of the PRI and Evópoli. The same month, the name "Levantemos" ("Let's get up") emerged as the name that generated greater consensus within the coalition as its mark. However, the name was challenged by the NGO Desafío Levantemos Chile, which objected to similarities with its own name and logo. The opposition bloc responded that the name of the coalition was not yet formalized and that "Levantemos" was only one of the options to consider. The name "Chile Vamos" was decided on 4 October 2015.

Following the election of Sebastián Sichel as the coalition's candidate during the 2021 presidential primaries, Chile Vamos has been considering changing the name of the coalition, with most suggestions revolving around Sichel's campaign slogan "Se puede" (It is possible). On August 20, 2021, the name of the coalition was officially changed to "Chile Podemos Más" ("Chile can do more").

The impact of the 2019-20 Chilean protests and the management of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a series of differences and frictions between the different parties of Chile Vamos.

In late 2019, UDI froze for a few months their membership with the coalition because of major disagreements with some policies of their fellow parties.