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Weekly Report - 19 March 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
CHILE: Zaldívar assumes presidency of Senate
No sooner did President Michelle Bachelet make a fresh bid to
"re-launch" her government on the second anniversary of coming to
power than she had to sit back and watch a man who has been a persistent thorn
in the side of her government sworn in as president of the Senate. Senator
Adolfo Zaldívar, who was expelled in December from the Democracia Cristiana
(DC), the largest party in the ruling Concertación, was elected with the
support of the opposition Alianza por Chile and two independent senators. It is
the first time since the restoration of democracy in 1990 that the president of
the upper chamber has not hailed from the Concertación.
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