Chilean Primaries

CHILE - Report 01 Jul 2013 by Alberto Etchegaray
Chile’s first presidential primaries are over. For the first time in Chilean political history, presidential candidates from the two main coalitions were elected in a legally framed primary. In the center-left coalition, “Nueva Mayoria” (New Majority), former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet (Socialist Party) won with a solid 73% of the votes, beating former Finance Minister Andres Velasco (Independent) with 13%, former Peñalolen Mayor Claudio Orrego (Christian Democratic Party) with 8%, and current Senator Jose Antonio Gómez (Radical Party) with 4%. Because Bachelet was the clear frontr...

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