Socialist Party of Chile
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Template:Infobox Political Party Template:Politics of Chile The Socialist Party of Chile (Spanish: Partido Socialista de Chile or PS) is a political party in Chile, and part of the ruling Coalition of Parties for Democracy coalition. President of Chile Ricardo Lagos Escobar represented the PS in the 1999 presidential elections. He won 48.0 % in the first round and was elected with 51.3 % in the second round. In the last legislative elections on December 16, 2001, the party won as part of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy 10 out of 117 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 5 out of 38 elected seats in the Senate. This changed at the 2005 elections to 15 and 8.
Socialist Michelle Bachelet won the 2005 Presidential election. She is the first female president to rule Chile.
History
It was the party of former President Salvador Allende, who was among its founders on April 19, 1933.
After the Chilean coup of 1973 it was proscribed (along with the other leftist parties constituting the Popular Unity coalition) and split itself in several groups that would not reunite until after the return to civilian rule in 1990.
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es:Partido Socialista de Chile fr:Parti socialiste du Chili id:Partai Sosialis Chili it:Partito Socialista Cileno lt:Čilės socialistų partija nn:Partido Socialista de Chile pt:Partido Socialista do Chile sv:Chiles socialistiska parti