1993 Concertación presidential primary

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%
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PDC

Presidential Candidate

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
PDC

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The 1993 presidential primaries of the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia were held to select the coalition's candidate for the 1993 Chilean presidential election. Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, son of former president Eduardo Frei Montalva and candidate of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), faced Ricardo Lagos Escobar, representing the Socialist Party (PS), the Party for Democracy (PPD), the Radical Party (PR), and the Chilean Social Democracy Party.

After the primary on May 23, a convention on May 30 confirmed Frei Ruiz-Tagle as the coalition's candidate. In the December 1993 election, he won the presidency with 57.98% of the vote, one of the highest margins in Chilean history.

Definition of candidacies

Towards the end of 1992, pre-candidates began to emerge within the Concertación for the 1993 presidential election. The government encouraged the coalition parties to agree on a common candidate, following the strong results achieved in the 1992 municipal elections.[1]

For the Christian Democratic Party, civil engineer Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, son of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva, was proposed. Although he entered politics in 1986, he had been elected as a senator for Santiago Oriente in 1989 and was serving as president of the PDC. Frei Ruiz-Tagle quickly prevailed over other potential candidates, such as Gabriel Valdés and Andrés Zaldívar, and was officially proclaimed on December 13, 1992.[2]

Meanwhile, in the leftist sector of the Concertación (led by the Socialist (PS) and Party for Democracy (PPD)), Ricardo Lagos, a lawyer and economist, resigned from the Ministry of Education on September 28, 1992, to run as a pre-candidate.

The Radical Party (PR) initially proclaimed Senator Anselmo Sule as its presidential candidate on August 15, 1992; however, he later withdrew in favor of Lagos.[3]

Campaign and election

The Concertación formed a commission of politicians—Genaro Arriagada (PDC), Erich Schnake (PPD), Benjamín Teplizky (PR), and Hernán Vodanovic (PS)—to study methods for selecting its presidential candidate. Known as the "Teplizky Commission," it presented eight possible procedures to the coalition parties on 8 January 1993. The chosen method combined primary elections for registered party militants and adherents with a convention of 3,000 delegates, 60% elected based on primary results and 40% appointed by the Frei and Lagos campaigns according to the 1992 municipal election results.[4]

On May 20, Lagos and Frei participated in the only televised debate of the election, moderated by journalist Sergio Campos, which achieved a 20-point rating.[5]

The primaries took place on Sunday, May 23, 1993, with Eduardo Frei winning 64% of the vote.[6] Frei's decisive victory led Lagos to quickly concede, clearing the way for the definition of the Concertación candidacies for the parliamentary elections.

The Concertación convention was held at the Diego Portales Building in Santiago on May 30. Of the total delegates, 1,924 supported Frei and 1,076 supported Lagos, officially proclaiming Frei as the coalition's presidential candidate.

Results

Candidate Party 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 [7]
Militants Adherents Total
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

  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. ^ Navarrete, Bernardo (2005). Las primarias como mecanismo de candidatos. La experiencia de 1993. Vol. IV. Agenda Pública.
  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.
  7. ^ Navarrete, Bernardo (2005). Las primarias como mecanismo de candidatos. La experiencia de 1993. Vol. IV. Agenda Pública.
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