Joaquín JoséLavín Infante is a Chilean politician of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) party and former mayor of Las Condes,in the northeastern zone of Santiago. Formerly Lavín has also been mayor of Santiago,Minister of Education and Minister of Social Development. He ran for president twice in 1999 and 2005,losing both times. In 2021 he tried to run again,but this time he was defeated in a primary election by Sebastián Sichel. Besides his political involvement Lavín has been active in education in the University for Development,of which he was one of the founders and original owners,and as editor of the economics section in El Mercurio.
The Independent Democratic Union is a conservative and right-wing political party in Chile,founded in 1983. Its founder was the lawyer,politician and law professor Jaime Guzmán,a civilian allied with Augusto Pinochet. Guzmán was a senator from 1990 until his murder by communist guerrillas on April 1,1991.
The Alliance,previously known as Alliance for Chile,is a coalition of centre-right to right-wing Chilean political parties. The Alliance was replaced between 2009 and 2012 by the Coalition for Change and since 2015 by Chile Vamos.
General elections were held in Chile on 11 December 1993 to elect the President,members of the Chamber of Deputies and elected members of the Senate. Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle of the Concertación alliance was elected President,and the alliance also won a majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and maintained its majority in the Senate. As of 2024,this is the most recent presidential election that did not result in a runoff.
National Renewal is a liberal conservative political party in Chile. It is a member of Chile Vamos,a center-right to right-wing coalition. Sebastián Piñera,the former President of Chile,was a member of the party.
General elections were held in Chile on Sunday 13 December 2009 to elect the president,all 120 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 18 of the 38 members of the Senate were up for election. As no presidential candidate received a majority of the vote,a second round was held between the top two candidates—Sebastián Piñera and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle—on Sunday 17 January 2010. Piñera won the runoff with 52% of the vote and succeeded Michelle Bachelet on 11 March 2010.
JoséAndrés Rafael Zaldívar Larraín,popularly known as El Chico Zaldívar,is a prominent Chilean Christian Democrat politician. Andrés Zaldívar is of Basque descent.
Evelyn Rose Matthei Fornet is a Chilean politician and the current mayor of Providencia,a prosperous commune of Santiago,serving since 2016. Prior to her current position,she held the role of Deputy in the Chilean Congress from 1990 to 1998,and subsequently served as a Senator from 1998 to 2011. In January 2011,she left her Senate seat to assume the role of Minister of Labor and Social Security under Chilean President Sebastián Piñera until July 2013. In the 2013 Chilean general election,she ran for President with the support of the Independent Democrat Union Party. However,she lost in a runoff to former President Michelle Bachelet.
The Coalition for Change was a presidential and parliamentary electoral coalition that groups the supporters of Sebastián Piñera for the 2009-10 Chilean presidential election. Its predecessor was the Alliance for Chile. The constituent parties are the Independent Democratic Union,National Renewal,ChileFirst,the movements Grand North,and Christian Humanism.
Ena Anglein von Baer Jahn is a Chilean journalist,political scientist and former senator.
General elections were held in Chile on 17 November 2013,including presidential,parliamentary and regional elections. Voters went to the polls to elect:
The Chilean presidential primaries of 2013 were held in Chile on Sunday 30 June 2013. It was the first such election to be run by the government under a new primary law published in December 2012.
The Penta case is a criminal case brought against Grupo Penta,a Chilean holding company,and employees of the Chilean National Tax System (SII). Key employees of the firm have been convicted of committing tax fraud by creating fake invoices in the National Tax System (SII). These funds were then directed to the political campaigns of mainly UDI politicians as campaign contributions. Several Penta employees,as some of their family members,have been convicted of tax evasion,bribery,and money laundering. Both directors of Penta Bank,Carlos Alberto Délano and Carlos Eugenio Lavín,were penalized with paying a fine,spending a few days in a special prison for economic crimes,and attending mandatory ethics classes.
The Corpesca case refers to an investigation and criminal case in Chile that revolves around illicit payments made by the industrial fishing firm Corpesca to at least two politicians,namely Jaime Orpis of the UDI party and Felipe Harboe of the PPD party. The objective of these payments was to influence votes pertaining to the fishing law known as the Longueira Law. The law,enacted in 2012,resulted in the allocation of a significant portion of Chile's fishing quota to companies controlled by no more than seven families,with the provision that these fishing rights would be inherited indefinitely by their heirs. The case primarily focuses on the influence exerted during the distribution of fishing quotas under the Longueira law.
Chile Vamos 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).
Political Evolution,also known in Spanish by its shorthand Evópoli,is a Chilean centre-right political party,founded in 2012. The party defines itself as a liberal platform for the people who look for a "modern centre-right who proposes as the central axis of their proposal the appreciation of diversity,the emphasis on encouraging local communities and the pursuit of social justice".
The presidential primaries of the Alliance of 2013 were the method of election of the presidential candidate of such Chilean center-right coalition,for the presidential election of 2013. On that same date the conglomerate would also realize its parliamentary primaries in the districts but the UDI decided not to participate in them,being reduced to the candidates of National Renewal (RN).
Sebastián Iglesias Sichel Ramírez is a Chilean lawyer,professor,ex minister of State and politician who served as president of the Banco del Estado de Chile from June 2020 until December 2020. He also previously served as Minister of Social Development and Family and executive vice president of Corfo under the second government of Sebastián Piñera. He was an independent candidate in the 2021 Chilean presidential election who ran under the centre-right Chile Podemos Más coalition.
Enrique Manuel Jovino Novoa Vásquez was a Chilean politician. He was a member of the Senate of Chile (1998–2014) and was the president of the Senate of Chile (2009–2010).
Pablo Guillermo Wagner San Martín is a Chilean commercial engineer,businessman,and politician. After a long period in the private sector,he was Undersecretary of Mining in the first government of President Sebastián Piñera between 2010 and 2012. In 2017 he was indicted for repeated bribery and money laundering offenses in the Penta case,being finally convicted in July 2018 as perpetrator of repeated tax offenses and relevant and unjustified capital increase.
