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Conservative leads early results in Chile

By: Castor (Diary)  |  January 17th, 2010 at 04:30 PM  | 

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During the last two weeks the center-left government of Chile has pulled out all of the stops to block the path to victory that the center-right Coaltion for Change had in it´s sights. Desperate to avoid a first defeat since elections were resumed 20 years ago after the end of the military government,It now appears that they have failed! Sebastian Piñera, who ran a campaign a la Bob McDonnell of Virginia,concentrating on jobs, economic growth and zero tolerance on crime appears to have won the election to be Chile´s next president. Election Central in Diego Portales, Santiago reports the following result:

With 60.32% of the vote in : Piñera 2,132,783 votes 51.87 % , Eduardo Frei 1,978,774 votes  48.12 %

The next update fromDiego Portales will be very interesting, indeed. It´s still a little early, but looking good. Better than good. Hugo Chávez is not very happy today.Naturally he´ll blame the results on us.

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  • Brian Hibbert

    I know nothing about Chilean politics.

    The media sometimes has a habit of labeling dictators as “Conservative” when they are nothing of the kind. Is this Coalition for Change party something that WE would identify as conservative?

    • Castor

      The coalition for change is the electoral moniker of the Alliance for Chile which is an electoral coalition of two parties. One of the parties is the UDI which is the Independent Democratic Union . This party can readily be classified as conservative under Red State definition. The other party is RN which is the National Renovation Party .They could be considered as more to the center ,but not too much more so. The winning candidate ,Sebastian Pi?era is from RN ,but from the rightside of this party bordering on UDI ideology which made him the ?glue?candidate to hold the loyalty and enthusiasm of both parties. The end result was the first right of center electoral victory in 52 years. The majority of senators and congressmen of the alliance are from the UDI. As are the mayors.

      • Brian Hibbert

        Thank you for the extra info.