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Weekly Report - 12 September 2013 (WR-13-36)
CHILE: Bachelet books presidential return
The 40th anniversary of the coup which ushered in the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet was always going to have a distinct electoral tinge with just over two months to go until the presidential and congressional contests. The need for “truth and justice” was a common thread in speeches delivered at separate events by President Sebastián Piñera and former president Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010), the presidential candidate for the left-wing Concertaciόn. But Bachelet went much further. She deftly drew a parallel between 1973 and now and the future direction she plans to take Chile’s democracy. More in touch with the majority of voters than her main rival Evelyn Matthei, her lead in the polls looks unassailable.
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