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Spain's former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, right, shakes hands with Chile's opposition presidential candidate Sebastian Piñeira (AP Photo/Santiago Llanquin)
Less than three months of the presidential elections in Chile, the panorama does not bode no sure victory of any candidate but the outcome favorable to the opposition, it would end 20 years of government sectors left center since dictator Augusto Pinochet left office in 1990
The right-wing presidential candidate Sebastian Piñeira has the most votes so far although the margin is not large ahead of the government candidate and also former Chilean President Eduardo Frei, who ruled the country in the decade of the nineties.
Piñeira, who is a wealthy businessman has the support of liberals as the representative of the right and liberalism, and has met with such figures as former President of Spain Jose Maria Aznar, and groups of liberal intellectuals as Alvaro Vargas Llosa Bolivia's former president Jorge Quiroga.
His meeting with Aznar caused controversy after former Spanish president said he "stood by the next president of Chile."
Eduardo Frei and all the officials have rejected the speech of the former President Spanish as a internal affairs states that "no foreigner will decide who governs the country". This chapter could affect the favoritism that is currently Piñeira in the polls.
The truth is that Chile is being ruled for 20 years by an alliance called “Concertacion Nacional” which brings together sectors that center-left has given presidents Eduardo Frei and present Michelle Bachelet, have maintained that while the Chilean economy stable, in recent years have symptoms of wear and opposition to policy change.
While neighboring countries like Peru, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina see with good will to Pineria will take the office because its nature as he looks a liberal would focus on trade relations and market opening in Chile to their companies, leaving aside the war policy of acquisition of military hardware that has characterized the governments of Chile thanks to the fee received by the Armed Forces of the importation of copper.
Piñera is leading the electoral preferences in Chile with 37% followed by ruling party candidate Eduardo Frei, with 28%. Third, with 17%, is placed on independent Marco Enríquez-Ominami. The elections will be held on 13 December.
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