Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (Spanish pronunciation: [riˈkaɾðo fɾoiˈlanˈlaɤos eskoˈβaɾ]; March 2 1938) is a lawyer economist and social democrat politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. He won the 1999-2000 presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent Democrat Union (UDI) candidate Joaquín Lavín. Lagos was the third president from the center-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy to have ruled Chile since 1990.
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active years end date
1992-09-28, 1998-08-01, 2006-03-11
active years start date
1990-03-11, 1994-03-11, 2000-03-11
birth date
1938-03-02
birth place
Chile, Santiago
occupation
Lawyer, Economist
order in office
Minister of Education, Minister of Public Works, 33rd President of Chile
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