Socialist leads in Chile poll
a Teaser:
With 82% of the votes counted after the poll on Sunday, Bachelet had 45.8% and Sebastian Pinera, a billionaire opposition candidate from the moderate wing of Chile's conservatives, was second with 25%.
Joaquin Lavin, another candidate from Chile's divided conservatives who have been out of power since Augusto Pinochet's 17-year dictatorship ended in 1990, ceded the election and said he would back Pinera in the second round.
"The people have spoken. That's democracy," said Lavin, who had about 23% of the vote.
If elected, Bachelet, a separated mother of three who was tortured under Pinochet, would extend the 15-year rule of a centre-left coalition that has cut poverty by half and overseen the country's transformation into the region's star economy. [/end of teser]
Gee I guess "W" wont be too impressed.
a Teaser:
With 82% of the votes counted after the poll on Sunday, Bachelet had 45.8% and Sebastian Pinera, a billionaire opposition candidate from the moderate wing of Chile's conservatives, was second with 25%.
Joaquin Lavin, another candidate from Chile's divided conservatives who have been out of power since Augusto Pinochet's 17-year dictatorship ended in 1990, ceded the election and said he would back Pinera in the second round.
"The people have spoken. That's democracy," said Lavin, who had about 23% of the vote.
If elected, Bachelet, a separated mother of three who was tortured under Pinochet, would extend the 15-year rule of a centre-left coalition that has cut poverty by half and overseen the country's transformation into the region's star economy. [/end of teser]
Gee I guess "W" wont be too impressed.
