Chilean presidential election, 1938

The presidential elections in Chile in the year took place on 30 October 1938. There was Pedro Aguirre Cerda (PAC ) under the motto " Pan, Techo y Abrigo " against Alessandri's conservative-liberal finance minister Gustavo Ross at ( "Order of y Trabajo "). This was based on the Partido Conservador, the Liberal Party, the Partido Demócrata and founded three years earlier trade association Confederación de la Producción y del Comercio ( COPROCO, meanwhile CPC).

The election was overshadowed by the massacre of more than 50 young supporters of the Movimiento Nacional Socialista de Chile, who had tried before the election to stage a coup. Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, who had been supported by the Nazis, was arrested and had to withdraw his candidacy. Paradoxically, he called for the prison to election of Pedro Aguirre Cerda, the candidate of the Frente Popular, a genuine anti-fascist Popular Front. The election was very close, but the winner could Cerda take office after the military as the Roman Catholic Church recognized him as the winner and were against a coup.