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Weekly Report - 22 January 2015 (WR-15-03)
CHILE: UDI thirsting for revenge
The ultra-conservative opposition Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI) has borne the brunt of the censure for illegal electoral campaign financing by the investment bank Penta. The scandal recently compelled the president of the UDI, Ernesto Silva, to issue a public apology but his contrition was offset by several calculated swipes at the ruling left-wing Nueva Mayoría coalition which, he contended, was every bit as guilty as the UDI of irregular campaign financing. The UDI pounced on revelations this week of a fundraising meal for the Nueva Mayoría on a luxury yacht in New York in September 2013 in the middle of the general election campaign. President Michelle Bachelet was forced to interrupt a visit to the US to issue a statement denying that anything untoward occurred aboard the yacht.
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