Chilean Ruling Coalition Reaches Out to the Communist Party

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Chilean Ruling Coalition Reaches Out to the Communist Party

By MercoPress

Chilean presidential hopeful and currently Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza admitted that the Chilean ruling coalition could loose next year’s election. But he also proposed closer ties with the Communist Party to impede further vote erosion.

Disappointed with the showing of the coalition in Sunday’s municipal elections Insulza said that “for years I’ve argued that it is very difficult for the opposition to win an election in Chile, because you don’t win a presidential election with 36 percent of the vote, but it is most possible that the ruling Concertación could loose, which is not the same”.

He added he hoped the ruling coalition “has learnt a lesson but at the same time we don’t jump to conclusions.”

Last Sunday, the conservative opposition won the mayoral races in Chile’s main cities, although the coalition managed to keep ahead in Councillors votes.

However Insulza praised the results from the “pact by omission” between the ruling coalition and the Communist party and proposed that the relation should be advanced.

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/7646/