Chile: Bachelet’s popularity unhelpful to Frei

In the mind of Eduardo Frei and his allies, President Michelle Bachelet’s high popularity (80%) was expected to be a point in favor of Concertación. However, the Chilean president could not transfer this same popularity to her candidate.

Although this hasn’t come as a complete surprise – popularity is personal and untransferable – the most confident government supporters believed Bachelet’s presence alongside Frei would help Concertación, which, in fact, did not happen.

At the same time that Michelle Bachelet will end her term as the most popular president in Chilean history, she might have to hand over office to Sebastián Piñera, her political adversary.

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