Socialist Party of Chile two-round system, the results of which are displayed below. Socialist Party of Chile The Socialist Party of Chile (, or PS) is a political party within the centre-left Nueva Mayoría. Its historic leader was President of Chile Salvador Allende, who was deposed in a coup d'état by General Pinochet in 1973. Twenty-seven years later, Ricardo Lagos Escobar represented the Socialist Party in the 1999 presidential elections. He won 48.0% in the first round of voting and was elected with 51.3% in the second round. In the legislative elections on 16 December 2001, as part of the Coalition of Parties for
Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Chile) Salaberry. In the absence (because of travel, death, or other impediment) of the President of Chile, the Minister of the Interior becomes Vice President; however this is not a true Vice Presidential position, but rather a position of a Designated Acting President, as the post of Vice President of Chile has no existence independent from the Ministership of the Interior. During the first days of the independence movements, the senior "secretary" of the respective Junta would function as the "Secretary of Government". The office officially first came to be on October 27, 1812, when it was one of the two