Election Dynamics Pick Up

CHILE - Report 19 Aug 2013 by Alberto Etchegaray

It has been an election season full of surprises. First former Mining Minister Laurence withdrew as candidate of the conservative UDI party, to be replaced by veteran former senator and Economy Minister Pablo Longueira. Then in July Longueira unexpectedly withdrew, citing a severe depression, leaving the spot open to another UDI veteran: Evelyn Matthei who, like Longueira was once a senator and recently had been serving as Labor Minister on the cabinet of Sebastián Piñera. RN, the other party in the right-of-center coalition, was not particularly keen on Matthei, at least at first, yet had ...

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