Socialist Party of Chile 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 Democracy, the party won 10 out of 117 seats
Chile–Ireland relations democratically elected President of Chile since before the military dictatorship was President Patricio Aylwin of Irish descent. In the early 1990s, both Chile and Ireland established diplomatic relations and in 2002, Chile opened its first resident embassy in the Irish capital. Presidential visits from Chile to Ireland Presidential visits from Ireland to Chile In 2015, total trade between Chile and Ireland totaled €252 million Euros. 70% of Chilean exports to Ireland is in Chilean wine followed by coffee, tea and grapes. Ireland's main exports to Chile include: cranes, computers, medicine and industrial oil and alcohol. In 2002, Chile and the