There will be a run-off between the two presidential candidates, Bachelet and Matthei.

Everyone supossed, even in the most realistic members of the chilean right wing, that the "Nueva Mayoría" candidate, Michelle Bachelet, would be the winner of the elections on first round  . But yesterday was the day of the optimistic ones of the "Alianza" coalition . According to the chilean Constitution, a candidate can win the elections on first round, getting at least the 50% percent plus one of the votes. But yesterday's scrutiny gave to Bachelet nearly the 46% of preferences; turning the hopeless faces of the "Alianza" members, into a hopefull looking ones.  

The second round vote will be on Dec. 15.

While Matthei offers a continuation of the current president, S. Piñera, legacy - which turns the chilean old fashioned right wing, into a more liberal one that takes distance of the Pinochet's figure, and gives importance to the economic values of the human being, calling themselves the protectors of the "freedom of choice"-; on the other hand we have the Bachelet's campaign, which offers a sustancial change at the Guzman's Constitution - that was, obviously, elaborated during the dicatatorship-, and turns the lead importance at discussions as the same sex mariage; changing the educational and health systems; abortion rights; etc. They're both radically opossed in values issues and economic matters.

Now the discussion will be focus not only on the political concerns, but in the personal lifes of the two candidates. Because they share, before the "coup d'état" an slightly similar way of life; because they both were daughters of high commands of the chilean air force FACH; but after the military coup the stories changed in a vertiginuos way, with the Bachelet's family being persecute by the coup leaders, tortured and even killed; and Matthei's family being part of the "Junta".

Now, the scene is changed, we have two candidates instead of eight, and the options are reduced.

  

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