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Weekly Report - 27 January 2011 (WR-11-04)
CHILE: Beleaguered opposition boosts Piñera
“The walking dead". That is how Senator Sergio Aguiló described the
centre-left opposition coalition Concertación last week after it gave President
Sebastián Piñera his first really significant congressional success since coming
to power last March. Aguiló quit the Partido Socialista (PS), one of the four
parties that make up the Concertación. He justified his decision to leave the
party he has belonged to for the past 20 years on the grounds that it had
sounded its own death knell by approving an education reform proposal tabled by
the government. As if the departure of the vice-president and head of the PS
bloc in the lower chamber were not enough, deputies from the Partido Radical
Social Demócrata (PRSD) reacted by “freezing" dialogue with colleagues in the
Concertación.
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