Weekly Report - 17 January 2006

Come the day, it was Michelle Bachelet who provided the surprise - by rising suddenly above the 'plateau' which opinion surveys had been predicting and attracting 53.5% of the vote in the 15 January run-off. Her rival, Sebastián Piñera, did not manage to attract all of the votes that had gone to the candidates of the right in the first round and ended up with 46.5%.