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Weekly Report - 17 September 2009 (WR-09-37)
CHILE: Candidates enter home straight
There will be five
presidential candidates competing in Chile's elections on 13 December after the
deadline for registration was passed this week. Only three of these - Sebastián
Piñera, of the opposition Coalición por el Cambio, Eduardo Frei of the ruling
Concertación, and Marco Enríquez-Ominami, an independent - have any chance of
winning, but the two radical left candidates, Jorge Arrate and Senator Alejandro
Navarro, could play a decisive role, with their support certain to transfer to
either Frei or Enríquez-Ominami against Piñera in a second round in January.
Enríquez-Ominami, Arrate and Navarro all left the Concertación earlier this year
on the grounds that it had lost touch with the electorate.
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- Quotes of the week