Having fallen just short of outright victory in Chile’s presidential election on November 17th, Michelle Bachelet duly trounced her conservative opponent, Evelyn Matthei, in a run-off vote on December 15th, by 62% to 38%. That was the widest margin of victory since 1990. The only blemish for Ms Bachelet, a socialist who was president in 2006-10, was that just 42% of the electorate bothered to turn out. “We have to persuade them to believe in democracy again,” she said. She hopes to do this by using her majority in Congress to push through free, universal and non-profit education, funded by tax increases, as well as constitutional changes. It is an ambitious programme—especially with the economy slowing.
via The Economist: The Americas http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21591883-bachelet-seals-victory?fsrc=rss|ame
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