A new air for Chile
Chile is now faced towards a new presidencial election, after the mandate of Ms. Michelle Bachellet for four years, since 2005.
The four candidates are in the middle of their battle to win the eleccions. On one hand there is Jorge Arrate, a lawyer, economist and ex secretary of state, which is presenting himself by the Juntos Podemos coalition, he is called the “darhorse” candidate by the public, because the uturo doesn’t lok very promesign for him in this elecctions, and his chances to win are very slim in comparison with some of the other candidates.
Marcos Enrique Ominami is another candidate, film maker, philosopher, and son of a famous Chilean politician, Miguel Enríquez; he is seen as the “Dissident Socialist Congressman”, with only 36 years old, he has captivated the young audience with his facilities in expressing himself and his oratory in speech.
Eduardo Frei, another candidate is a more known character, he was President of Chile from 1994 to 2000. Now, he is currently Senator for Los Ríos and was President of the Senate from 2006 to 2008. He is the candidate for ruling Concertación coalition for the 2009 presidential election. Doubts are made if he is capable of winning the elections towards Sebastian Piñera, the last and the most powerful candidate until now.
As said before, the last candidate is Sebastian Piñera, an economist, investor and a member of the center-right National Renewal (RN) party, a constituent of the Alliance for Chile coalition, and a former Senator. In 2005, he ran in the Chilean presidential election, losing to Michelle Bachelet in a runoff. Now he is running again with a mayor approval toward the public, having a 36.4% of the public votes.
He is the candidate with more approval towards Eduardo Frei, with a 28,6%, Marcos Enriquez Ominami with 19,3% and Arrate with 4,7%. The first election is December 13th and the second round is January 17th.
