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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

India TV News Desk Updated on: November 17, 2013 11:35 IST


“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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