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Weekly Report - 23 March 2017 (WR-17-11)

CHILE: Combative Piñera confirms re-election bid

“Given the difficult crossroads Chile has reached and the decisive importance of these presidential elections, I felt in the core of my being that my duty was to take on this challenge and embody the [requisite] leadership”. With these words, former president Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014) formally launched his candidacy on 21 March for the right-of-centre coalition Chile Vamos in this November’s presidential elections. Piñera fired a broadside at the incumbent left-of-centre Nueva Mayoría government led by President Michelle Bachelet which he described as “bad; Chileans know it, feel it and suffer it”.

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