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Weekly Report - 14 January 2010 (WR-10-02)
CHILE: Frei should push Piñera close
The presidential candidate for the right-wing Coalición por el
Cambio, Sebastián Piñera, is the favourite to win the second round run-off on 17
January. He won by an emphatic margin in the first round last month and he has
led every opinion poll since. But, it promises to be a much closer affair than
many commentators thought, especially considering the urban bias of the most
recent polls: the candidate for the ruling Concertación coalition, Eduardo Frei,
is much stronger than Piñera in rural areas.
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