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Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (b. Santiago, June 24, 1942) is a civil engineer and Chilean Christian Democrat politician, fourth child of seven 7 which was the late former president Eduardo Frei Montalva with the former first lady also died in the country, Maria Jimenez Ruiz-Tagle. He was President of Chile in the period between 1994 and 2000 and currently serves as a senator representing the Region XIV de Los Rios for the period 2006 — 2014.
His presidential term was marked the deepening of the “open regionalism”, which was to strengthen international relations in the economic field with a large number of countries. In this way, chile achievement associate membership to the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and began negotiations in the next government would lead to the signing of free trade treaties with countries like the United States and China, and economics as the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
His second administration-power after the departure of General Augusto Pinochet was also marked by the growth of the economy particularly in the first four years of its mandate, advances in infrastructure through partnerships with private , development of education reform and the beginning of a historic reform of the professional procedure system.
Frei is now the presidential candidate of the ruling Coalition of Parties for Democracy for the presidential elections of December 2009. This nomination after getting caught the proclamation of his tent and the Socialist Party and the Party for Democracy from December 2008 and January 2009, following the withdrawal of the career of former President Ricardo Lagos on December 4, 2008, and the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza, a month later. The support of the Radical Social Democratic Party, the smallest in the coalition, it won the April 5, 2009, after passing for more than twenty percentage points to Senator Jose Antonio Gomez in a primary election conducted in the regions of O’Higgins and The Maule margin set by the commands to end the internal strife.