CHILE: SALVADOR ALLENDE IS NOW THE LIKELY PRESIDENT AFTER WINNING CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS SUPPORT.

Record ID: 1079920

  • Title: CHILE: SALVADOR ALLENDE IS NOW THE LIKELY PRESIDENT AFTER WINNING CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS SUPPORT.
  • Date: 6th October 1970
  • Summary: 1. GV EXT Building where Allende met to discuss details with government. 0.08 2. SV Allende with Prado 0.14 3. CV Allende speaking to pressmen. 0.24 4. SV Pressmen outside Christian Democrat building 0.27 5. CV Sign "Christian Democrat Party" 0.32 6. SV Members of party arrive. 0.37 7. SV Prado arrives 0.45 8. SV Pressmen 0.46 9. CV Private sign on door. 0.48 10. GV INT Party members seated at table (4 shots) 1.07 11. SV Andres Donoso Minister of Housing arriving at meeting 1.10 12. SV Other members arriving (2 shots) 1.23 13. SV INT Congress party leaders seated at table PAN TO Prado addressing meeting 1.34 14. SV Members of Congress listen and Pardo continues (3 shots) 1.55 Initials CM/AS/BB/2315 CM/AS/BB/0015 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th October 1970 13:00
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  • Location: SANTIAGO, CHILE
  • Country: Chile
  • Reuters ID: LVABV7O3N4NV6YWN50H53DP7YBW7
  • Story Text:Socialist Salvador Allende is virtually assured of final election as Chilean President after a decision on Sunday (4 October) by the Christian Democratic Party to support him in Congress against right-winger Jorge Allessandri.

    Senor Allende, of the United Popular Front of left-wing parties, won the Presidential election on September 4th but did not get the necessary fifty per cent of the votes to secure outright election. Because of this there has to be a run-off between him and Mr. Allessandri, who came second, when Congress meets on October 24th.

    The Supreme National Council of the ruling Christian Democrats, who hold the balance of power in Congress with 75 of the 200 seats, decided by a vote of 271 to 191 to support 62 year-old Mr. Allende.

    The acceptance, at the Assembly of the Supreme National Council of the Christian Democratic Party came after a meeting earlier in the day between Senor Allende and the Christian Democrats' leader Benjamin Prado, and extensive discussion of the issue at the headquarters of the Christian Democratic Party in Santiago.

    The Christian Democrats's approval followed acceptance by the Popular Front of certain constitutional guarantees to be enshrined in the Constitution in return for supporting Allende.

    These included maintenance of a multi-party system, the right of free expression, a free and secret vote, a guarantee that the three branches of Government--executive, legislative and judicial--remained independent, and that education was to remain without ideological orientation.

    The National Council recommended that a multi-party Commission be formed immediately to word the guarantees, but added that the Christian Democrats would present their own statute of guarantees to Congress if the left-wing parties did not agree.
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