With just one month to go until Chilean voters go to the polls, the cut and thrust of political debate moved to a new level. The frontrunner in the presidential race, former president Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014), launched a scathing attack on President Michelle Bachelet and the ruling left-wing Nueva Mayoría coalition. Piñera said some of Bachelet’s emblematic reforms would need to be revised, claiming that “she has governed for the United Nations elite rather than ordinary Chileans”, while accusing the Left of thinking that “it alone can govern legitimately”. Several Nueva Mayoría deputies fired back rejoinders, but the coalition was sidetracked by internal problems this week. End of preview - This article contains approximately 914 words.
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