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Weekly Report - 26 October 2017 (WR-17-42)
CHILE: Piñera and Bachelet slug it out
With three weeks to go before the 19 November general election, the big political boxing match is being fought not between the frontrunners, but between one of them – former president Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014) of the right-of-centre Chile Vamos coalition – and someone who is not even a candidate: the sitting president, Michelle Bachelet of the incumbent Nueva Mayoría centre-left coalition. Who benefits is not entirely clear – but Piñera seems to think he is well positioned.
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