Alejandro René Eleodoro Guillier Álvarez (born 5 March 1953) is a Chilean sociologist, television and radio journalist, and independent politician. He is a

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of the 2nd District of

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and was the 2017 presidential candidate of the New Majority. Guillier ran in the New Majority primary for the 2017 election and was the coalition's standard bearer in the 2017 presidential elections to replace term-limited president

Michelle Bachelet Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (; born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018, becoming the first woman to hold the presidency. She was re-elected in December ...

. Among others, he faced former PPD president

Ricardo Lagos Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (; born 2 March 1938) is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military di ...

before the latter's withdrawal from the contest.

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showed him to be competitive against

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candidate

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, although his support slipped in the run up to the election and after a series of splits between the traditional left coalition block. Gullier is a freemason and a member of the Valparaíso Parliamentary Lodge since 2014.

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Biography by CIDOB
(in Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Guillier, Alejandro René 1953 births Catholic University of the North alumni Candidates for President of Chile Chilean Freemasons Chilean journalists Chilean sociologists Chilean television presenters Chilean television personalities Chilean people of French descent Living people Radical Social Democratic Party of Chile politicians Senators of the LIV Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile Senators of the LV Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile