Alliance for Chile

The Alliance for Chile ("Alianza por Chile"), also known as La Alianza (The Alliance), is a coalition of right wing Chilean political parties. It includes the National Renewal (RN) and the Independent Democratic Union (UDI).

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Right wing - Chilean - National Renewal - Independent Democratic Union

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The alliance conforms the only real opposition to the incumbent government, with representation in the Congress. They are perceived as right-wing in many aspects, especially the economy, but as its new name express, they have taken a broader approach, concentrating efforts in the middle class and poor, getting electoral victories in districts formerly thought to be very strong supporters of the Concertación, but keeping most of the votes in the districts traditionally associated with them in the northeast of Santiago, which are considered as upper class.

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Congress - Right-wing - Middle class - Poor - ''Concertación'' - Upper class

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Its principal leader is Joaquín Lavín, former mayor of Las Condes and former Mayor of Santiago. He represented the Alliance as its Presidential candidate in 1999, losing 51%-49% in the runoff election to Ricardo Lagos of the centre-leftist Concertación. Lavín is running again as UDI's nominee for President in the upcoming election on December 11, 2005 with the candidate of RN's, Sebastián Piñera.

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Joaquín Lavín - Las Condes - Santiago - Presidential - 1999 - Ricardo Lagos - Upcoming election - December 11 - 2005 - Sebastián Piñera

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The intention of UDI was to nominate only one candidate for the election and there was some debate when RN nominated its own candidate. However, they have agreed to joint efforts if one of them pass to the runoff election.

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