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Weekly Report - 29 September 2011 (WR-11-39)

CHILE: Piñera unable to arrest fall

President Sebastián Piñera’s popularity is plumbing new depths. He has now reached 22%, according to a poll by Cerc released this week, down 13 percentage points on the last poll in May. For months, as Piñera has been on his downwards trajectory, various media outlets have erroneously reported that his approval rating has slumped to the lowest level of any president since the restoration of democracy. This, finally, is true: former president Eduardo Frei, the previous holder of this dubious accolade, reached a nadir of 28% when he left office in 1999. The trouble for Piñera is that it could yet get worse: his government is no closer to finding a resolution to student protests, the main cause of his precipitate fall.

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