The Socialist Party of Chile (Spanish: Partido Socialista de Chile, or PS) is a political party within the center-left Nueva Mayoría. Its historic leader was the late President of Chile Salvador Allende Gossens, who was deposed in a coup d'état by General Pinochet in 1973. Twenty-seven years later, the President of Chile Ricardo Lagos Escobar represented the Socialist Party in the 1999 presidential elections.