Chile's Bachelet Maintains Lead in Presidential Race, Poll Says
Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Chilean presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet remains the favorite to win the election this December, which would extend the leadership of the center-left coalition that took power after dictator Augusto Pinochet was ousted in 1990.
Forty-nine percent of 819 people polled Sept. 22 through Sept. 29 by Ipsos Opinion Chile said they would vote for Bachelet if the election were held the following Sunday, compared with 48 percent in August.
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Sebastian Pinera, a businessman running for the conservative National Renovation Party, would receive 21 percent of the vote, down from 23 percent in August, according the Ipsos poll. Joaquin Lavin, of the conservative Independent Democratic Union party, would get 16 percent of the vote, unchanged from August. Lavin lost to President Ricardo Lagos in the 2000 election.
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