1993 Concertación presidential primary

Concertación presidential primary, 1993
Registered	608 569
Turnout	63.76
Previous Presidential Candidate; Patricio Aylwin; PDC	Presidential Candidate ; Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle; PDC

The presidential primaries of the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia of the year 1993 was the electoral method to define the presidential candidate of such Chilean coalition, for the presidential election of 1993. In them Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, son of the ex- president Eduardo Frei Montalva and candidate for the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) faced Ricardo Lagos Escobar, candidate for the Socialist Party of Chile (PS), the Party for Democracy (PPD), the Radical Party (PR) and the Chilean Social Democracy Party.

After the May 23 election, a convention held on the 30th of that same month proclaimed Frei Ruiz-Tagle as presidential candidate for the Concertación, who in December 1993 was elected to the country's first magistracy with 57.98% One of the highest election figures of a president in the history of Chile.

Definition of candidacies

Towards the end of 1992, pre-candidates began to appear within the Coalition of Parties for Democracy for the 1993 presidential election. It was the same government that urged the parties of the ruling party to seek a common candidate, after the good results Obtained in the municipal elections of 1992.^[1]

For the Christian Democrat Party the civil engineer Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, the son of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva, was introduced. Despite his having entered politics in 1986, his first national majority Elected senator by Santiago Oriente in 1989, in addition to being president of the PDC. Frei Ruiz-Tagle comfortably imposed himself on other names that sounded in the collective, such as Gabriel Valdés and Andrés Zaldívar, being proclaimed on December 13, 1992.^[2]

Meanwhile, within the leftist sector of the Concertación (a bloc led by the Socialist (PS) and For Democracy (PPD) parties) Ricardo Lagos, a lawyer and economist, resigned from the Ministry of Education on September 28, 1992 to present as precandidate.

The Radical Party (PR) proclaimed Senator Anselmo Sule as his presidential candidate on August 15, 1992, although he declined his nomination in favor of Lagos.^[3]

Campaign and election

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle and other Concertación members in 1993

The Concertación created a commission of politicians to study the methods to nominate its presidential candidate, which was composed by Genaro Arriagada (PDC), Erich Schnake (PPD), Benjamín Teplizky (PR) and Hernán Vodanovic (PS). The so-called "Teplizky Commission" handed over to the parties of the Concertación on 8 January 1993 eight alternatives for the election, from which primary elections were held for previously registered militants and adherents of the coalition parties, in addition Of a convention that would be made up of 3,000 delegates, of which 60% would be elected in relation to the results of the primary, and 40% nominated by the commanders of Frei and Lagos, in proportion to the results obtained in the municipalities of 1992.^[4]

On May 20, Lagos and Frei starred in the only televised debate on the election, which was moderated by journalist Sergio Campos and scored 20 rating points.^[5]

The primaries were held on Sunday, May 23, 1993, with Eduardo Frei being the winner of the vote for 64% of the votes.^[6] The forcefulness of Frei's vote caused Lagos to quickly recognize his defeat, leaving the plain path to the primary and the definition of the candidacies of the Concertación for the parliamentary elections.^[5]

The Concertación convention was held at the Diego Portales Building, in Santiago, on May 30. Of the total members, 1924 went to Frei and 1076 to Lagos, being the first proclaimed presidential candidate of the Concertación.^[4]

Results

Candidate			Endorsement	Votes	%
	Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle	PDC		244 256	63,32
	Ricardo Lagos Escobar	PPD/PS	PPD-PS-PR-SDCH	141 477	36,68
Valid votes				385 733	99,41 %
Void and blank				2285	0,59 %
Total				388 018	100,00 %
Inscrits				608 569	63,76 %

By region

Región	Adherents				Militants
	Lagos		Frei		Lagos		Frei
	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
Tarapacá	3260	44,79 %	4019	55,21 %	984	45,70 %	1169	54,30 %
Antofagasta	4583	45,62 %	5464	54,38 %	1079	40,16 %	1608	59,84 %
Atacama	1996	43,16 %	2629	56,84 %	629	53,26 %	552	46,74 %
Coquimbo	5025	39,67 %	7642	60,33 %	1772	45,30 %	2140	54,70 %
Valparaíso	12 331	33,69 %	24 269	66,31 %	3886	30,86 %	8707	69,14 %
Metropolitana	41 011	39,35 %	63 201	60,65 %	15 089	42,24 %	20 630	57,76 %
O'Higgins	4162	30,68 %	9403	69,32 %	1680	33,75 %	3298	66,25 %
Maule	6064	30,48 %	13 829	69,52 %	2239	34,28 %	4292	65,72 %
Biobío	11 273	31,80 %	24 173	68,20 %	3011	38,58 %	4794	61,42 %
Araucanía	4036	23,77 %	12 941	76,23 %	1583	32,49 %	3289	67,51 %
Los Lagos	7237	32,48 %	15 044	67,52 %	3160	41,22 %	4506	58,78 %
Aysén	791	37,88 %	1297	62,12 %	363	41,77 %	506	58,23 %
Magallanes	3256	45,74 %	3862	54,26 %	977	49,62 %	992	50,38 %
Total	105 025	35,87 %	187 773	64,13 %	36 452	39,22 %	56 483	60,78 %

Convention results

Candidate		Party		Primary			Command	Total ^[4]
Candidate		Party		Militants	Adherents	Total	Command	Total ^[4]
	Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle		PDC	547	577	1124	800	64,2
	Ricardo Lagos Escobar		PPD/PS	353	323	676	400	35,8
Total						1800	1200	3000

References

^ "Las elecciones municipales de 1992 en Chile". Revista de Derecho Político. 1994.
^ "Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle". bcn.cl. Archived from the original on 2017-05-02. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
^ "Murió Presidente del PRSD, Anselmo Sule". El Mercurio. 7 June 2002. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c Navarrete, Bernardo (2005). Las primarias como mecanismo de candidatos. La experiencia de 1993. Vol. IV. Agenda Pública.
^ ^a ^b Navia, Patricio (2005). La elección presidencial de 1993. Una elección sin incertidumbre (PDF). Centro de Estudios Bicentenario. pp. 435–462.
^ Délano, Manuel (1993). "Frei se afianza en las primarias como favorito ante las presidenciales chilenas". El País.

[1] "Las elecciones municipales de 1992 en Chile". Revista de Derecho Político. 1994.

[2] "Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle". bcn.cl. Archived from the original on 2017-05-02. Retrieved 2017-03-18.

[3] "Murió Presidente del PRSD, Anselmo Sule". El Mercurio. 7 June 2002. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2017.

[result-4] Navarrete, Bernardo (2005). Las primarias como mecanismo de candidatos. La experiencia de 1993. Vol. IV. Agenda Pública.

[icso-5] Navia, Patricio (2005). La elección presidencial de 1993. Una elección sin incertidumbre (PDF). Centro de Estudios Bicentenario. pp. 435–462.

[6] Délano, Manuel (1993). "Frei se afianza en las primarias como favorito ante las presidenciales chilenas". El País.

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