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Ricardo Lagos
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar
(; 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. He was succeeded on March 11, 2006 by Socialist
Michelle Bachelet
, from the same coalition. Since May 2007 he has served as a
Special Envoy on Climate Change
for the
United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon
.
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