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New Middle Class

political party in Chile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ92837553 ↗
Source-derived summary

New Middle Class (Spanish: Nueva Clase Media, NCM) was a centrist Chilean political party. It was founded in 2019 by former militants of the Democratic Independent Regionalist Party (PRI) led by its former president, Eduardo Cerda, and Alejandra Bravo Hidalgo.

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“New Middle Class” enters the record as political party in Chile. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Middle, Class and political can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q92837553. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Middle Class” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.