Early Day Motion·EDM 271

SOCIALIST PRESIDENT OF CHILE

17 January 200070 Signatures

Motion Text

That this House congratulates the people of Chile on their wisdom in electing the respected socialist, democrat and anti-fascist Ricardo Lagos as their next President; and notes that he will be the first Socialist President of Chile since the murder of the democratically-elected Salvador Allende in the brutal military coup carried out by Augusto Pinochet in September 1973.