执政联盟自身的问题也辅助了皮涅拉的成功。 代表执政联盟参选的基督教民主党候选人爱德华多·弗雷是过去 20 年间智利四任总统中受欢迎程度最低的一个。
Piñera’s victory was aided by the sclerosis of the Concertación, which ran as its candidate the Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei, the least popular of its four presidents of the last two decades.