Nueva Mayoría

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New Majority
Nueva Mayoría
Leader Michelle Bachelet
Founded April 30, 2013
Headquarters Santiago de Chile
Political position Centre-left[1][2][3][4] to Left-wing[5]
Deputies
67 / 120
Senate
21 / 38
Communes
170 / 345
Party flag
200px
Politics of Chile
Political parties
Elections
File:Proclamación de Michelle Bachelet en el Teatro Caupolicán.jpg
Michelle Bachelet, presidential candidate and leader of the Nueva Mayoría.

The Nueva Mayoría (Spanish for New Majority) 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.[6]

Political objectives

Michelle Bachelet has stated that a principal objective of the Nueva Mayoria coalition will be to achieve and establish a system of universal and free access to higher education within a time frame of six years.[7]

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".[8]

Composition

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 Nueva Mayoría also includes the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh), the Citizen Left (IC), the Broad Social Movement (MAS) and centre-left independents.[6] In March 2014, the regionalist Northern Force Party joined the Nueva Mayoría.[9]

Party Spanish Leader
Movimiento Amplio Social (new).svg Broad Social Movement Movimiento Amplio Social Alejandro Navarro
Flag of the Christian Democrat Party of Chile.svg Christian Democratic Party Partido Demócrata Cristiano Ignacio Walker
Izquierda Ciudadana.png Citizen Left Izquierda Ciudadana Víctor Osorio Reyes
Partido Comunista de Chile.svg Communist Party Partido Comunista Guillermo Teillier
Partido por la Democracia emblema.png Party for Democracy Partido por la Democracia Jaime Quintana
Partido Radical Socialdemócrata logo.jpg Social Democrat Radical Party Partido Radical Socialdemócrata José Antonio Gómez
22px Socialist Party Partido Socialista Isabel Allende
Northern Force Party Partido Fuerza del Norte Mandiza Barbaric

Presidential elections

File:Debate Primarias Presidenciales 2013.jpg
Presidential primary candidates of the Nueva Mayoría

The Nueva Mayoría coalition was registered on April 30, 2013 with the Chilean Electoral Service (SERVEL).[10] 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,[11] 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%.[12] The pact got more than two million votes from a total of three million voters, tripling the votes obtained by the Alliance.[13]

Initially, the coalition intended to hold its primary elections on June 30, 2013; however, this was annulled because parties failed to reach an agreement regarding their nomination. After several negotiations, an agreement was reached to commence partial and complete primaries in some districts on August 4, 2013.[14]

After the primaries, Bachelet went straight to the election process, in which she competed with eight other candidates,[15] the highest number in Chilean electoral history.[16] In those elections, the leader of the coalition achieved a 46.70% of votes, not enough for an absolute majority nationwide,[17][18] so she had to face a runoff with the candidate of the Alliance, Evelyn Matthei,[19] where finally she won with 62.16% of the vote.[20][21] This victory marked the first re-election of a woman in office,[22] in addition to the return of the center-left government after four years of the administration of Sebastián Piñera.

References

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