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Weekly Report - 28 January 2010 (WR-10-04)
CHILE: Piñera sows discord in Concertación
The post mortem in the Concertación had not
even got underway after the victory of the right-wing candidate, Sebastián
Piñera, in the second round of presidential elections on 17 January, when splits
began to emerge in the left-wing coalition. The president of the Partido Radical
Social Demócrata (PRSD), the smallest of the four parties in the Concertación,
forged an alliance with Piñera's Coalición por el Cambio and the Partido
Regionalista de los Independientes (PRI), to make up the leadership committee of
the lower chamber of congress. He was forced to renege on the deal and resign
after shrill cries of betrayal, but Piñera is skilfully exploiting differences
in the Concertación through his call for a government of “national
unity".
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