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New Majority presidential primary, 2013

New Majority presidential primary, 2013
Chile
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Turnout 2,142,070 (16.23%)
  Michelle Bachelet headshot 2013.jpg Andres-velasco-wiki (2).jpg
Nominee Michelle Bachelet Jeria Andrés Velasco Brañes
Party Socialist Independent
Popular vote 1,565,269 278,684
Percentage 73.07% 13.01%

  Claudio Orrego sobre fondo negro (Headshot).jpg José Antonio Gómez Urrutia, ministro de justicia (3).jpg
Nominee Claudio Orrego Larraín José Antonio Gómez Urrutia
Party Christian Democratic Social Democratic Radical
Popular vote 189,752 108,365
Percentage 8.86% 5.06%

Previous Presidential Candidate

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Christian Democratic

Presidential Candidate

Michelle Bachelet
Socialist


Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Christian Democratic

Michelle Bachelet
Socialist

The presidential primaries of the New Majority in 2013 were the method of election of the Chilean presidential candidate of the parties Christian Democrat, Radical Social-Democrat, For Democracy, Socialist (who formed the Concertation of Parties for Democracy), Movimiento Amplio Social, Citizen Left and Communist, as well as left-wing and center-left independents, grouped in the "New Majority" pact, for the 2013 election. On that same date, the conglomerate also planned to hold its parliamentary primaries in districts and/or districts where appropriate; However, on 1 May it was decided that such primaries would not be carried out at the official level.

It was the first primary of the Concertación under the primary law, approved during 2012, which regulates its exercise.1 In addition, it had as a novelty that it participated more than two candidates, unlike the previous primary elections of the coalition, in it they faced - according to the order in which they appeared in the ballot - Michelle Bachelet,Jose Antonio Gomez,.Claudio Orrego and Andres Velasco.


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