Chile choosing between billionaire and ex-journalist for president

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Chile choosing between billionaire and ex-journalist for president
Dave Sherwood, Caroline Stauffer5 Min Read

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chileans voted in a runoff presidential election on Sunday that will determine if the world’s top copper producer stays on its center-left course or joins a tide of Latin American nations turning to the right in recent years.

They are choosing between billionaire former President Sebastian Pinera, 68, a conservative who was considered the front-runner but earned fewer votes than expected in last month’s first round, and center-left Senator Alejandro Guillier, a 64-year-old former journalist.

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Both candidates would keep in place Chile’s longstanding free-market economic model, but Pinera has promised lower taxes to turbocharge growth while Guillier wants the government to press on with outgoing President Michelle Bachelet’s overhaul of education, taxes and labor.

[Fishrrman]

Chile has prospered since it turned right under Pinochet.

Hopefully, they will be wise enough not to repeat their past (as with Allende)...

[dfwgator]

[endicom]

And...it's Pinera.