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Joaquín José Lavín Infante (b.
Santiago,
October 23 1953) is a
Chilean
politician. He is a member of the
Independent Democrat Union (UDI) party and former mayor of
Santiago and
Las Condes municipalities of capital
Santiago. He was a presidential candidate in
1999 and
2005, but lost both times.
Lavín earned a master's degree in
economics from the
University of Chicago. He wrote a book,
Una revolución silenciosa (A Quiet Revolution), in support of Pinochet's economic policies. He was also political editor of El Mercurio. Afterwards, in
1992, Lavín was elected
mayor of
Las Condes, a stronghold of the right, with 31% of the vote and reelected in
1997 with 78% of the vote.
Lavín was the presidential candidate for the UDI-
RN coalition
Alliance for Chile in the
1999 election. He eventually lost to
PS/
PPD candidate
Ricardo Lagos in a runoff by 200,000 votes. Lavín again represented UDI in the
2005 presidential election, but ended in third place with 23.23% of the vote, due the presence of another right-wing candidate in the race,
Sebastián Piñera, who made it to the runoff election with 25.41% of the vote.
Lavín is also a supernumerary member of the conservative
Opus Dei religious organization.
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