Jesús Cohn Martinelli (Napoleon's World)

Jesús Cohn Martinelli (born July 8, 1950) is the President of the Radical Party of Chile and a two-time Presidential candidate, running in 2002 and 2006, in which he became the first and to date only PR candidate to advance to the runoff. Martinelli was a member of the Communist Youth when he studied at university but before graduation fled Chile to Mexico City, where he studied law. He later worked for the government-in-exile in New York before returning to Chile in 1988 during the Second Rehabilitation to work as a lawyer. He joined the PR in 1990 and ran for the Chamber of Deputies in 1994, winning his election. He was selected as party candidate by internal primary in 2001 and 2005, and led the PR to strong vote totals in both elections. In 2007, he was elected President of the Radical Party and he oversaw the Congressional campaign of 2010 that gave the PR the third-most seats in the Congress of any party, behind only the Christian Democrats and Party for Social Democracy. He is considered a frontrunner for the Presidency in 2014.