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Weekly Report - 23 April 2009 (WR-09-16)
CHILE: Piñera struggles to preserve opposition unity
The likely presidential candidate of the opposition coalition Alianza
por Chile, Sebastián Piñera, is battling to resolve sharp differences between
his centre-right Renovación Nacional (RN) and the right-wing Unión Demócrata
Independiente (UDI). The crux of the dispute is the selection of candidates for
December's congressional elections, and the UDI's difficulty in accepting it is
no longer the senior partner in the coalition. The upshot: the Alianza failed to
capitalise on the travails of the ruling Concertación, which faced an awkward
week as the umbrella trade union, Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT)
organised a general strike.
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