(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – People in Chile have high expectations for their new government, according to a poll by Adimark Gfk. 59 per cent of respondents expect the country to do well under new president Sebastián Piñera.
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – People in Chile have high expectations for their new government, according to a poll by Adimark Gfk. 59 per cent of respondents expect the country to do well under new president Sebastián Piñera.
In January, Chileans voted in the second round of the presidential election. Opposition candidate Piñera of the centre-right Coalition for Change (CC) defeated former president Eduardo Frei of the governing centre-left Agreement of Parties for Democracy (CPD) with 51.61 per cent of the vote.
The CPD had administered the Chilean government since the return of democracy after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in March 1990. Bachelet was ineligible for a consecutive term in office.
On Feb. 27, Chile was hit by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. The death toll has been calculated at over 400, while about 900,000 have been left injured or homeless.
On Mar. 11, Piñera was sworn in as president. In his first speech as Chile’s head of state, Piñera vowed to focus on reconstruction, adding, "I want to affirm that maintaining public order and providing the essential services that allow people to live a dignified life will be a permanent and absolute priority."
Polling Data
Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, how do you expect the country to do under Sebastián Piñera?
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Well / Very well |
59%
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Average
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27%
|
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Badly / Very badly
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3%
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Average / Not sure
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11%
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Source: Adimark Gfk
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,129 Chilean adults, conducted from Mar. 3 to Mar. 6, 2010. Margin of error is 3 per cent.
