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| Billionaire beat leftists, now face |
| Chile: Billionaire beat leftists, now faces runoff
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 15-December-2009
2:31:35 AM |
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Right-wing billionaire Sebastian Pinera beat three leftists in presidential election but failed to obtain a majority, setting up a runoff against a veteran of the coalition that has ruled Chile for two decades of democracy.
With 60 per cent of the vote counted, the Harvard-educated Pinera had 44 per cent to 30 per cent for the ruling center-left coalition's candidate, former President Eduardo Frei. Breakaway Socialist Rep Marco Enriquez-Ominami had 19 per cent, and communist Jorge Arrate had 6 per cent, according to nationwide results.
The trend was expected to roughly hold through yesterday's vote count, putting Pinera and Frei in a Jan 17 runoff election where the key question will be whether leftists can unify to fend off the most moderate candidate Chile's right has ever had.
A runoff win by Pinera, 60, would install a right-wing government in Chile for the first time since Gen Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship. But in a region now dominated by leftists, Pinera can't find the votes without persuading leftists to take a chance on him.
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