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Weekly Report - 30 November 2017 (WR-17-47)

CHILE: Courting the FA

One of the big surprises of the 19 November general election was the strong performance by the presidential candidate of the leftist Frente Amplio (FA), Beatriz Sánchez [WR-17-46]. With the dust barely settled on the presidential first round, the two run-off candidates, former president Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014) of the right-wing opposition Chile Vamos and Senator Alejandro Guillier, the candidate backed by the ruling centre-left Nueva Mayoría (NM) coalition, are now clearly focusing their efforts on seeking to win over the FA opposition coalition of small leftist parties and movements ahead of the second round on 17 December.

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