Right-wing opposition won municipal elections, one year before the presidential election in Chile

World News Rudolph Rodriquez
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The right-wing opposition won Sunday’s municipal elections in Chile, including the capital Santiago, an election that is a hard blow for the center-left coalition with the current head of state Michelle Bachelet before the 2017 presidential election, according to AFP.

According to election officials, after counting 83% of ballots, Chile Vamos right coalition won 38.63% of votes, ahead of New Majority, center left coalition that brings together the radical Communist-Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, and socialists. They met 37.29% of the votes in an election with a turnout of only 40%, according to the first official figures.

In Santiago, Carolina Toha Social Democrat mayor was defeated by Felipe Alessandri, a lawyer representing the right.

Thirty parties competed for 346 mayors and 2,240 municipal councilor posts.

The vote was preceded by a campaign marked by a new electoral law that restricted advertising and campaign financing by companies after a series of corruption scandals involving politicians from across the political spectrum.

One of these scandals endorsed even Michelle Bachelet, whose husband and son are suspected of corruption in connection with the purchase and sale of land worth 15 million dollars.

Sunday’s vote was the last before the presidential elections scheduled for November 2017, to which Michelle Bachelet, whose popularity is in freefall, with only 23% will not be able to present the Chilean law prohibiting consecutive mandates.

Although former President Sebastian Pinera has not yet ruled on a possible candidacy in the elections of November 2017, the land seems ready for a new presidential term of one who was learned as president between 2010 and 2014.