Concertación presidential primary, 1993
May 23, 1993
Registered608 569
Turnout63.76
 
Candidate Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle Ricardo Lagos Escobar
Party PDC For Democracy
Popular vote 244.256 141.477
Percentage 63.32% 36.68%
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 Party Endorsement Votes %
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
244 256 63,32
Ricardo Lagos Escobar 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]
Militants Adherents Total
Eduardo Frei
Ruiz-Tagle
PDC
 547 577 1124 800 64,2
Ricardo Lagos Escobar 353 323 676 400 35,8
Total 1800 1200 3000

References

  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.
  4. 1 2 3 Navarrete, Bernardo (2005). Las primarias como mecanismo de candidatos. La experiencia de 1993. Vol. IV. Agenda Pública.
  5. 1 2 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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