Weekly Report - 22 March 2012 (WR-12-12)

The spokesman for Chile’s ultra-conservative Unión Democrática Independiente (UDI), Senator Víctor Pérez, accused the opposition Concertaciόn this week of encouraging social unrest in the regions in order to position candidates ahead of municipal elections later this year. His allegations came after the government’s talks with protesters in the southern region of Aysén broke down once again. It is not the actions of Concertaciόn politicians that have been attracting attention, however; the Senator for Aysén, Antonio Horvath, of the UDI’s coalition partner Renovaciόn Nacional (RN), maintained this week that “the Coaliciόn por el Cambio (the ruling coalition comprising the two parties) no longer exists”. It is at precisely this point that President Sebastián Piñera called on the Coaliciόn to back a controversial tax reform he plans to send to congress next month.

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