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Weekly Report - 27 May 2010 (WR-10-21)

CHILE: Piñera hews to the centre

President Sebastian Piñera gave his first state-of-the-nation address to congress on 21 May to outline his plan of governance. For the main, especially on the issue of social protection, he sounded more like the fifth president of the now-opposition left-of-centre Concertación than the first of a right-of-centre coalition dominated by the right-wing Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI), which has already been publicly critical of Piñera's preference for technocrats in his cabinet appointments and his decision to increase the fiscal burden on big businesses and the wealthy to help fund post-earthquake reconstruction. But Piñera threw enough sops to the UDI to prevent further internal political rumblings in his coalition.

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