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Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2014 (ISSN 1741-4431)
CHILE: Initial overtures
Since taking office on 11 March for a second four-year term [RBS-14-03], President Michelle Bachelet has taken pains to show that she is serious about making good her campaign pledge to redress social inequality. As well as making gestures to various civil society groups clamouring for change, Bachelet has already sent down to congress her tax reform bill – one of her three key pledges (along with overhauling the national education system and constitutional reform) - and is preparing to send down an education reform bill before the end of next month. Yet Bachelet’s initial days in office have also exposed tensions between the radical and more moderate members of the ruling Nueva Mayoría alliance, which comprises the four centre-left parties of the old Concertación coalition plus the Partido Comunista de Chile [PCCh])
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