Editing Soledad Alvear (section)

==Political career==
Under President [[Patricio Aylwin]], Alvear worked as Minister of Women's Affairs, a new Ministry created to deal with discrimination against women in Chilean society. Under the [[Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle]] administration she assumed as Justice Minister and helped in completely overhauling the Criminal Justice Code, which dated from Spanish Colonial times. With [[Ricardo Lagos]] she worked as campaign manager during the 2000 runoff election, and then under his government she worked as [[Foreign Minister]], signing [[Free Trade Agreement]] with the [[United States]], the [[European Community]] and [[South Korea]].

On late 2004 Alvear won her party's nomination for the upcoming presidential election, and then was to face the [[Socialist Party of Chile|Socialist Party]] candidate, [[Michelle Bachelet]], in an [[open primary]] election, to define a sole ''[[Concertación]]'' candidate. However, low support in opinion polls and on her party leadership led her to resign two months before the defining primary. Her decision to run for a seat in the Senate in the concurrent [[2005 Chilean parliamentary election|parliamentary election]] proved successful, winning a seat for the PDC in the Santiago/East constituency. In May 2006, she became the first woman elected president of the PDC, with nearly 70% of the votes.

On 22 September 2022, she officially joined [[Amarillos por Chile]], centrist political party.<ref name="BíoBío">{{Cite web|url=https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/chile/2022/09/23/alvear-burgos-y-micco-los-nombres-que-firman-por-amarillos-por-chile-para-convertirse-en-partido.shtml|title=Alvear, Burgos y Micco: los nombres que firman por Amarillos por Chile para convertirse en partido|publisher=[[Radio Bío-Bío]]|date=23 September 2022|accessdate=20 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnnchile.com/lodijeronencnn/soledad-alvear-amarillos-continuadores-concertacion-defensores-30-anos_20220923/|title=Alvear aseguró que en Amarillos por Chile se sienten 'continuadores' de la ex Concertación y 'defensores de los 30 años'|publisher=[[CNN Chile]]|date=23 September 2022|accessdate=28 January 2024}}</ref>