Weekly Report - 08 November 2012 (WR-12-44)

After waiting 20 years to come to power in presidential elections, the Right is fretting about being out in the cold again after just four years in government. The heavy defeat for the ruling Coalición por el Cambio in the municipal elections on 28 October prompted some soul-searching. The main consensus was that Public Works Minister Laurence Golborne and Defence Minister Andrés Allamand, the two favourites to challenge the presidential candidate for the opposition Concertaciόn, needed to leave the cabinet to begin campaigning. President Sebastián Piñera conducted a mini cabinet reshuffle allowing them to cut loose.

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