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Chile's Bachelet favored to win presidency

Santiago: Chileans were preparing to return Michelle Bachelet to the presidency on Sunday, hoping she can fulfill promises to reform a dictatorship-era system they blame for keeping the working classes poor and indebted to the



“You almost feel sorry for her because she's going to be stuck between the future and the past,” said Peter Siavelis, a political science professor at Wake Forest University and author of “Democratic Chile: The Politics and Policies of a Historic Coalition”.
 
“There all these demands in the streets for constitutional reform but she's facing a Congress that's going to be elected by the binominal elections system,” Siavelis said.

“There's not going to be a majority there. So the influence of the dictatorship is going to impact on her reforms."

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