Alejandro Guillier

Chilean politician

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Alejandro Guillier was a Chilean politician who ran for president in 2017. He was a former television news anchor and represented the New Majority coalition. In the 2017 election, Guillier secured approximately 23% of the vote, advancing to the second round of the runoff election against Sebastián Piñera. Piñera ultimately won that election, beginning his second term as president of Chile.1

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Chile
The second presidency of Sebastián Piñera (2018–22)
…the second round, along with Alejandro Guillier, the candidate of Bachelet’s New Majority (Nueva Mayoría) coalition, who tallied some 23 percent of the vote. (Bachelet was constitutionally prohibited from running for a consecutive term.) Beatriz Sánchez of the Broad Front (Frente Amplio), a coalition of leftist political parties and grassroots…
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…the second round, along with Alejandro Guillier, the candidate of Bachelet’s New Majority (Nueva Mayoría) coalition, who tallied some 23 percent of the vote. (Bachelet was constitutionally prohibited from running for a consecutive term.) Beatriz Sánchez of the Broad Front (Frente Amplio), a coalition of leftist political parties and grassroots…
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