Evangelical political movement in Chile: Political parties and political candidacies

Abstract

In Latin American countries, the opinion and protest of the evangelical community has become relevant. For many years the presence of this group was reduced in the public sphere, despite being a large group of society. Today this sector of the population seeks to be represented in politics, as evidenced by the number of evangelical candidates who have been presented in the last two elections, the public rallies by evangelical organizations and the efforts to raise different political platforms for evangelicals, including political parties. This phenomenon becomes relevant because these groups can directly affect the public agenda with a marked conservatism. The overall objective of this article is to understand why evangelical people have mobilized politically in the last years through the attempt to form an evangelical political party and through candidacies for positions of popular representation.