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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 02 February 2018

CHILE: Piñera’s cabinet raises eyebrows

“Not only a step backwards but a form of provocation”. This was the response by Beatriz Sánchez, the defeated presidential candidate of the radical left-wing Frente Amplio (FA), to the new cabinet unveiled by president-elect Sebastián Piñera. Sánchez’s surprisingly strong performance in the first round of the elections had forced Piñera and his Chile Vamos coalition to adopt a more centrist platform ahead of the December run-off against the ruling Nueva Mayoría candidate Alejandro Guillier. Some of Piñera’s picks for ministerial positions – particularly hardliners from the ultra-conservative Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI) – have cast doubt over whether these promises will materialise once he takes office in March.

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