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	The Ultimate Chilean coup of 1973 - American History Information Guide and Reference
		The Chilean coup d'état of September 11, 1973 was a watershed event in the history of Chile and the Cold War.
		In Chile's 1970 presidential election, in accordance with the constitution, Congress resolved the 3-way split — between Salvador Allende (with 36.3% of the vote), conservative (and former president) Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez (35.8%), and the Christian Democrat Radomiro Tomic (27.9%) — by voting to approve Allende's narrow plurality.
		The majority of the Chilean population were at the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum and had grown weary of perennial problems that were affecting the country.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Chilean_coup_of_1973 (4334 words)

	Thirty Years of Chilean Socialism
		While Lagos's nomination as the Concertacion's candidate in the 2000 presidential election put the Socialists at the head of the coalition, the candidate took pains to distance himself from the legacy of the Popular Unity.
		That was, however, to be the zenith of the "Chilean road." The Popular Unity's remaining years were marked by deepening political conflict, social polarization, and economic crisis.
		Chilean capitalists were little inclined to invest for an uncertain future in the new Chile.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /South_America/30Years_ChileanSocialism.html (1923 words)

	Chilean presidential election, 1999-2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A presidential election was held in Chile on December 12, 1999.
		None of the candidates achieved an absolute majority and a runoff election among the top two contenders was held on January 16, 2000.
		In the first round, a total of 7,271,572 Chileans cast their vote, of an electorate of 8,084,476 citizens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chilean_presidential_election,_1999-2000 (93 words)

	Update on Chilean Politics
		Two months before the December 16 parliamentary elections, Chilean politics continues to be marked by the embarrassing communicational and political mistakes, errors and miscalculations of all major coalitions and political parties.
		Ever since the election date had to be moved from December 11 to December 16 to accommodate the candidates from the Christian Democratic Party, this has been the textbook example of what not to do in political campaigns.
		Lavín impressive 47% support in the 1999 presidential election and his overwhelming victory in the Santiago mayoral race in 2000 have risen the conservative parties' expectations to win a presidential election (2005) for the first time since 1958.
	homepages.nyu.edu /~pdn200/Votos/cl200110.htm (1765 words)

	CNN - Lagos declared winner of Chilean presidential election - January 16, 2000
		I will be the president for all Chileans," Lagos told an estimated 60,000 supporters, gathered in front of the presidential palace to hear his victory speech.
		The runoff was held to declare a final winner from last December's election, which Lavin won by a razor-thin margin, but not with the required majority of votes.
		Lavin concedes defeat to Lagos in Chilean presidential election
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/01/16/chile.elex.03/index.html (599 words)

	Rightwing could form government in Chile after presidential election
		Presidential elections in Chile have, for the first time since General Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship, raised the possibility of rightwing parties forming the government.
		If he does win the election in January he will be the first president of the extreme right to rule since Pinochet, under whom he worked as an advisor.
		In the last two presidential elections the Concertacion had the backing of a substantial majority, but last Sunday Lagos managed to win by a mere 8,036 votes.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/dec1999/chile-d18.shtml (1361 words)

	Elections and Electoral Systems by Country
		The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented.
		Adam Carr's Electoral Archive has complete (ie, seat by seat) federal elections statistics from 1901 (federation) to the present, and statistics for all Australian state elections since 1990.
		Elections New Zealand is the website for the Electoral Enrolment Centre, Chief Electoral Office and the Electoral Commission, and has election results
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /election.htm (1222 words)

	Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley
		It is said that this sector of the Chilean population is the protagonist of this election.
		In the municipal elections of 1996, analysts suggest, symptoms of a popular disaffection with politics in general, as well as with the administration and its parties in particular, had already begun to emerge.
		These signs were evident in the 1997 parliamentary elections, when the sum of those citizens who were able to vote but did not register, those who abstained, and those who cast null or invalid votes, reached almost 40 percent of the potential electorate.
	socrates.berkeley.edu:7001 /Events/series/chile/arrate-eng.html (1046 words)

	Peru
		Under the 1997 Elections Law, each of the participating political parties must prepare a list of ranked candidates from which the 120 members of the unicameral legislature are elected by direct ballot.
		The 1998 municipal elections were held under a new law that mandated that all party candidate lists for congressional and municipal elections include at least 25 percent of each sex.
		In conjunction with the 2000 election campaign, four women's organizations undertook nationwide programs to identify female candidates and promote women's interests, increase the number of female voters, prepare a woman's political agenda, and train women who were elected to office.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/398.htm (19514 words)

	USA-Chile
		The arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London on human rights charges in October 1998, however, brought new pressure on the U.S., from both human-rights activists and the Spanish prosecutors of the Pinochet case, to finally come clean.
		A February 1999 National Security Council directive calling on U.S. intelligence agencies to compile and turn over documents related to Chile has led to the June release of 5,800 previously classified documents dating from 1973-1978 (the dictatorship's most repressive years), with two further declassifications expected this year and next.
		After the declassifications of June 1999, much of the news media led with the "revelation" of CIA documents showing the agency was aware of the dictatorship's plan for a wave of "severe repression" in the days after the coup, and then of the hundreds murdered in state custody (which a CIA memo numbered at 1,500).
	www.zmag.org /ZMag/articles/USA-Chile.htm (1217 words)

	Chilean presidential election, 2005-2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2005 Chilean parliamentary election was held in conjunction with the presidential election.
		In previous elections the candidates presented independently by the pact's parties were consistently in third place, behind the two major coalitions, and holding poll numbers in the single-digit level.
		January 14, 2005: Soledad Alvear defeats senator Adolfo Zaldívar in an internal primary, and is proclaimed presidential pre-candidate by the PDC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chilean_presidential_election,_2005 (1960 words)

	The Truth About Venezuela's Presidential Election - a VIC briefing
		July 2000: Presidential election held under the new constitution, won by Hugo Chávez with an increased majority of 59.76 per cent of the vote.
		The Presidential ballot could have the largest-ever number of candidates in Venezuelan history; at the close of nominations there were 27 candidates, though a number have since withdrawn.
		Elections are administered by the National Electoral Council (CNE), an independent institution of state, separate from the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches.
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1900 (2594 words)

	Profile of Chile
		It is likely that the same tone that influenced the 1998 elections in Brazil and the October 1999 elections in Argentina will influence the Chilean elections as well as the upcoming 2000 Mexican Presidential elections.
		The Chilean pension system that was established in 1981 has been a tremendous source of new finance capital to the construction and real estate industries in Chile, as well as a model imitated around the region.
		The Chilean property tax collection system is interesting in how it shows the possibilities for emerging markets to skip developmental phases to advance beyond developed industrial economies in some ways with the help of new technology.
	www.realtor.org /intlprof.nsf/All/Chile?OpenDocument (1288 words)

	Bucking Chilean tradition \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		That scant experience has played in her favor, allowing her to portray herself as an ordinary Chilean breaking from the country's old politics even though she's the candidate of a coalition of parties, Concertacion, ruling since democracy returned 15 years ago.
		By contrast, her top challengers, Joaquin Lavin, a former mayor of central Santiago who almost won the presidency in 1999, and Sebastian Pinera, a businessman and former senator, are old political hands.
		She rose steadily within the ministry over more than a decade and was offered its top job after the 1999 election of fellow socialist Lagos, whom her family had known for years.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/100120 (685 words)

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		The election of Lagos is, however, first and foremost, a major accomplishment for the Concertación as a coalition of Christian Democrats and socialist parties.
		During the campaign, Chilean political observers adopted the view, disseminated by the Lavin camp, that a legacy of his near-success is a "new form of doing politics" that ought to be widely adopted.
		An important consequence of the election might be a revamping of the Christian Democratic party, which had suffered in previous elections from its dominant role in the coalition, a decline reflected in its defeat in the primaries.
	faculty.smu.edu /lmanzett/Chile3.doc (2129 words)

	Chile’s Road Ahead: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
		That election pits Socialist Michelle Bachelet, the daughter of an Air Force officer who died in Pinochet’s prisons, against Sebastián Piñera, a billionaire businessman who opposed Pinochet toward the end of his rule and managed to defeat Joaquín Lavín, the other conservative candidate, in the first round.
		Many Chilean friends tell me that if a referendum were held, Chilean voters would probably opt for revising the foundations of their free-market model.
		And if Chileans were deeply at odds with their own social model they would not have almost thrown the governing coalition from power in the previous presidential elections.
	www.independent.org /newsroom/article.asp?id=1653 (946 words)

	Workers World Aug. 5, 1999: Popular alliance ready to overhaul Venezuela gov't
		This has been not just an election but a social struggle in which the masses have high hopes to really change their conditions of life.
		Media accounts here of the election results all add that Venezuela is the largest outside supplier of oil to the United States--implying that there is a threat to the U.S. economy if radical change happens.
		Since his election, he has mobilized the army for many social projects like building schools, hospitals and housing, and distributing basic foodstuffs at wholesale prices in poor neighborhoods--which of course has infuriated the merchants.
	www.workers.org /ww/1999/venezuela0805.php (1438 words)

	Send to a Friend - IPS Inter Press Service
		Street vendors capitalised on the festivities by selling replicas of the blue, white and red Chilean presidential sash, which were snapped up by enthusiastic female supporters from the time Bachelet's resounding triumph was predicted by the preliminary vote tallies.
		In the lead-up to the Dec. 11 general elections, Bachelet quickly emerged as a favourite in the polls, prompting fellow centre-left coalition member and presidential contender Alvear, a Christian Democrat, to withdraw from the race and clear the way for Bachelet's selection as the Concertación candidate.
		While Bachelet took almost 46 percent of the votes in the Dec. 11 elections, she did not capture the absolute majority needed to win the presidency in the first round, leading to the runoff against second-placed Piñera.
	www.ipsnews.net /sendnews.asp?idnews=31789 (894 words)

	Chapter 2-- History / Case Study
		In Chile between 1823 and 1830 the development of political ideas, the formation of faction (not yet genuine political parties), the attempts to turn the ideas of a faction into action or policy, the adoption of nonindigenous philosophies, and the lust for power were all dependent on control of, or good relations with, the military.
		The triumph at Yungay made the Chilean Army a source of national pride as a legitimate means of preserving and extending Chilean power and dignity.
		In contrast to the 1933 Constitution, which called for a five year, once-renewable presidential term, the 1925 Constitution provided for a six year presidential term that could not be renewed.
	www.geocities.com /ajhrhodes/doc-two.htm (6308 words)

	12/9/99 BW Online--A Santiago Spring for Democracy?
		For many years, "politics" was the ugliest word in Chilean Spanish, as many blamed the violent 1973 coup on the scheming and narrow self-interest of traditional party leaders.
		But as Chile readies for a presidential election on Dec. 12, young people seem to be flocking to candidates as if they were pop stars.
		Instead, Chileans rejected his rule, and Chile returned to democracy in 1990 with the election of Patricio Aylwin, a center-left Christian Democrat most thought could heal old wounds.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/dec1999/nf91209f.htm (888 words)

	Posts tagged with election \| MetaFilter
		Either way, a successful election would be better than a return to the war that killed 4 million people.
		The Populist Party platform from 1892 on, called for direct senatorial election; and the Progressive movment made it, along with Prohibition (18th Amendment) and Women's Suffrage (19th), a cornerstone of reform.
		On the same day that Iraqi election officials have reported the draft constitution having passed, U.S. sources are reporting that the American military death toll in Iraq has reached 2,000 people.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/election (3297 words)

	Ready for Justice (Human Rights Watch, 14-10-1999)
		Last October, the country was reeling from the decision of British authorities to hold General Pinochet in London, not for any crime committed in England or in Spain, where a warrant had originated, but for the murder or disappearance of 3,000 civilians during his military dictatorship in Chile in the 70's and 80's.
		Some Chileans were laying siege to the British and Spanish embassies while others celebrated the arrest as a moral victory.
		Neither presidential candidate in December's election is focusing much attention on his fate.
	www.hrw.org /editorials/1999/jmvnyt.htm (468 words)

	II. The Pinochet Case (Discreet Path to Justice?: Chile, Thirty Years After the Military Coup, Human Rights Watch ...
		The political parties of the right, facing a presidential election in December 1999, distanced themselves from Pinochet's legacy (the former dictator's name was scarcely mentioned by either side in the campaign).
		Application of the amnesty law fell in 1999 to the doctrine of "disappearance" as an ongoing crime.
		On October 7, 2002, the Santiago Appeals Court rejected a request for Pinochet´s parliamentary immunity to be removed as a prelude to his extradition to Argentina to stand trial for the car-bomb murder of former army commander-in-chief Carlos Prats and his wife Sofía Cuthbert, in September 1974 in Buenos Aires.
	www.hrw.org /backgrounder/americas/chile/chile0903-2.htm (1018 words)

	RangeVoting.org - wrong-winner elections
		In this election, conducted with the instant runoff system, Mary Robinson won the final round by 52.8% versus Brian Lenihan's 47.2%.
		Lenihan, however, would have won had the election been conducted with plain plurality voting (he got 44.1% of the top-rank votes, while the next contender had 38.9%).
		And indeed, in every Irish presidential election besides 1990, the Fianna Fail party's candidate always won, despite the fact that Ireland as a PR country had more than two parties.
	www.rangevoting.org /FunnyElections.html (5288 words)

	CUA Columbus School of Law
		As compared with the United States legal model, the Chilean legal system emphasizes the importance of codified, statutory law in instances where common-law systems (like the United States) would give more weight to legal precedent on the particular issue at hand.
		The present version of the Constitution was amended in 1997, but was first enacted in on September 11 of 1980, effective on March 11, 1981. The legal system is based on a Spanish code enacted in 1857, which was added to by incorporating elements of French and Austrian codes during the 19th Century.
		With the exception of the Tribunal Constitucional (Constitutional Tribunal), the Tribunal Calificador de Elecciones (the Tribunal charged with qualifying elections), regional electoral tribunals, and military tribunals during wartime, all lower courts must defer to the direction of the Supreme Court.
	law.cua.edu /ComparativeLaw/Chile (2010 words)

	CNN - Chile's first-ever presidential runoff campaign under way - December 13, 1999
		SANTIAGO, Chile (CNN) -- Both candidates in Chile's presidential runoff are back on the campaign trail after surviving round one of the nation's closest-ever presidential election, surprising Chile's ruling party coalition.
		With 99.4 percent of 7.2 million votes tallied from Sunday's election, Socialist Ricardo Lagos had 47.9 percent to right-wing populist Joaquin Lavin's 47.5 percent, both just shy of the simple majority needed to win outright.
		The nation's first-ever presidential runoff was set for January 16.
	edition.cnn.com /1999/WORLD/americas/12/13/chile.election.02 (567 words)

	LANIC Electoral Observatory: Elections in Chile
		The three percent difference corresponds closely to the votes obtained by Gladys Marín's far left coalition in the first round, suggesting that her supporters transferred their votes to the Concertación, without further defections of Christian Democrats from the Concertación over to the right.
		Ricardo Lagos, Socialist candidate of the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia, and Joaquín Lavín, of the rightist Alliance for Chile, finished in a dead heat in the Sunday, December 12, presidential elections.
		The run-off election, to be held January 16, 2000, will be the first ever in Chilean history.
	lanic.utexas.edu /info/newsroom/elections/chile/121299.html (414 words)

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