Government in Chile
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CHILE, 2013/07/06
Speaking from the presidential palace La Moneda Piñera as well congratulated the high turnout of voters, almost three million voters, which is double the original estimate from analysts and lawmakers at the same time as legislation was debated.
The president had words of praise for the losing candidates and their contribution to the “enrichment process of Chilean democracy”.
Following the vote count by the country’s Electoral Board Service published in their web, Socialist Ms Bachelet collected 2.981.688 votes or 73.11% of votes cast in the primary of the opposition coalition, New Majority. Runner up was a former Economy minister, Andrés Velasco with 12.96% of the votes. Two other candidates, Claudio Orrego from the Christina Democrats and Radical party Jose Antonio Gomez took the rest, 8.86% and 5.05%, respectively.
