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Weekly Report - 13 August 2009 (WR-09-32)
CHILE: Frei takes aim at Enríquez-Ominami
The presidential candidate for the ruling Concertación, Eduardo Frei,
accused his leftist rival, Marco Enríquez-Ominami, of colluding with Sebastián
Piñera, the candidate for the opposition coalition, Coalición por el Cambio, to
attack him. The outburst suggests that Frei might be feeling the strain after
being on the receiving end of constant criticism from within the Concertación
about the running of his campaign almost from the moment he won the nomination
in a party primary earlier this year. Frei had previously pointedly ignored
Enríquez-Ominami, rather too insouciantly dismissing his prospects to focus his
firepower on Piñera.
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