2013 Alianza presidential primary
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The presidential primaries of the Alliance of 2013 were the method of election of the presidential candidate of such Chilean center-right coalition, for the presidential election of 2013. On that same date the conglomerate would also realize its parliamentary primaries in the districts but the UDI decided not to participate in them, being reduced to the candidates of National Renewal (RN).
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It was the first time that the Alliance held primary elections in its history, since its origins as the Democracy and Progress pact in 1989, joining the process just established by the law of primaries approved during 2012.][1]
UDI candidate Pablo Longueira managed to obtain 51.37% of the votes of the primary, surpassing the representative of RN Andrés Allamand. Yet, soon after he resigned due to a diagnosis of clinical depression. Labor Minister Evelyn Matthei was then nominated as the Alliance's candidate.