2009 Concertación presidential primary
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The presidential primaries of the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia of 2009 were the method of election of the presidential candidate of such a Chilean coalition for the 2009 presidential election.[1] Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, former President of Chile (1994–2000), a member of the Christian Democrat Party (PDC) and candidate for his party, the Socialist Party of Chile (PS) and the Party for Democracy (PPD), and José Antonio Gómez, a militant and candidate of the Radical Social Democratic Party.
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After having established different regional dates, on the condition that the candidate was immediately proclaimed winner of the contestant by twenty percentage points or more, only the first date, on April 5, 2009, was made in the Region of O'Higgins and in the Maule Region. Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, who was proclaimed candidate of the Concertación that same night, was elected by 64.9% of the votes, becoming in this way the only militant of the conglomerate that has won two primaries, and therefore, the only one who has been a presidential candidate in two elections, having defeated Ricardo Lagos with a similar percentage in the 1993 primary.[2][3]
Frei would obtain 29.6% in the presidential election, happening to the balotaje of the 17 of January 2010 together with Sebastián Piñera, candidate of the Coalition for the Change. However, Piñera was elected in the second round with 51.61% of the preferences, compared to 48.39% obtained by the Concertación candidate.