New Majority (coalition)
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New Majority
Nueva Mayoría |
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| Leader | Michelle Bachelet |
| Founded | April 30, 2013 |
| Headquarters | Santiago de Chile |
| Political position | Centre-left to Left-wing |
| Deputies |
67 / 120
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| Senate |
21 / 38
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| Communes |
170 / 345
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The New Majority (Spanish: Nueva Mayoría) is a Chilean electoral coalition created in 2013 and composed mainly of centre-left political parties supporting the presidential candidacy of Michelle Bachelet in the 2013 election.
Michelle Bachelet has stated that a principal objective of the New Majority coalition will be to achieve and establish a system of universal and free access to higher education within a time frame of six years.
The first time the name of the new coalition was mentioned on March 27, 2013, when Bachelet agreed to be presidential candidate for the primary coalition. On that occasion, she asked that her eventual administration was "the first government of a new social majority".
The coalition consists of the four principal parties of the Concert of Parties for Democracy, namely, the Socialist Party of Chile (PS), the Christian Democratic Party (Chile) (PDC), the Party for Democracy (PPD) and the Social Democrat Radical Party (PRSD). In addition, the New Majority also includes the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh), the Citizen Left (IC), the Broad Social Movement (MAS) and centre-left independents. In March 2014, the regionalist Northern Force Party joined the New Majority to merge with the Broad Social Movement and found the MAS Region.
The New Majority coalition was registered on April 30, 2013 with the Chilean Electoral Service (SERVEL). The Coalition held its primaries on June 30, where Michelle Bachelet (PS) won with 73% of the vote to become the sole presidential candidate of the bloc, defeating the independent Andrés Velasco, who won 13% of the preferences, to Claudio Orrego (PDC), which stood at 8.86%, and radical José Antonio Gómez, who reached 5.06%. The pact got more than two million votes from a total of three million voters, tripling the votes obtained by the Alliance.
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