| − | Sebastián was thus "positioned" and in 2009 he ran against Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle. Things looked close. Then he asked to summon retired military men, who flocked to his club in the Alameda and promised to enforce the laws in the trials-business of leftist lawyers of "human rights". In particular, he promised to enforce the statute of limitations and offered to shorten the number of trials, which at that time was around 300. He was elected. It was the first supposed right-wing government to enter [[La Moneda]] since the [[Military Government (Chile)|Military Government]] of [[Augusto Pinochet]] and President Jorge Alessandri who governed from 1958 to 1962, however, Piñera's Government was going to be a continuation of the Concertación instead of an opposition. Piñera's Coalition was called "Alianza por el Cambio" (Alliance for Change). | + | Sebastián was thus "positioned" and in 2009 he ran against Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle. Things looked close. Then he asked to summon retired military men, who flocked to his club in the Alameda and promised to enforce the laws in the trials-business of leftist lawyers of "human rights". In particular, he promised to enforce the statute of limitations and offered to shorten the number of trials, which at that time was around 300. He was elected. It was the first supposed right-wing government to enter [[La Moneda]] since the [[Military Government (Chile)|Military Government]] of [[Augusto Pinochet]] and President Jorge Alessandri who governed from 1958 to 1962, however, Piñera's Government was going to be a continuation of the [[Concertación]] instead of an opposition. Piñera's Coalition was called "Alianza por el Cambio" (Alliance for Change). |