Eight million Chilean is called Sunday with the ballot boxes in order to elect their president for the four years to come. A President who has good lucks to be a President and the first woman elected with the head of Chile. Candidate of a left coalition of center, bringing together the Christian-Democrats and the radicals, old the Minister for Defense is given gaining by the last survey, published Thursday by the Mori institute, with 53 % of the intentions of vote against 47 % for her adversary of right-hand side, the contractor Sebastian Pinera. At the first turn, December 11, the candidate of the "Concertacion" (the name of the coalition) had arrived at the head with 46 % of the voices.

Turning. Its victory, after that of Evo Morals in Bolivia, would still accentuate the turning on the left of the Latin America. A turning which it called with not "diaboliser" . Michelle Bachelet, Socialist, unmarried mother and agnostic, are a not very conventional candidate, but who will not call into question the market economy of the country. It does not frighten the contractors, who have contributed to his countryside, satisfied that its program follows the line of Concertacion, the capacity for sixteen years. And that of the outgoing president, Ricardo Lagos, a line which makes the beautiful share with the economic liberalism.

The ex-pediatrist, ex-minister of Health in 2000, however intends to make it more social. The inequality between Chilean rich person and the poor, one of worst of planet, will have been one of the major topics of this countryside. It promised, during the first 100 days of its government, the implementation of 36 measurements concerning employment, the social security, education, the women, health and the environment. For the first time since the end of the dictatorship, the line will have evil to be opposed to it: Concertacion gained the majority in the two rooms on December 11. If Michelle Bachelet is elected president, it will thus have a great liberty of action. The more so as the mode, inherited the Constitution of Pinochet of 1980, is strongly presidential. The head of State is a also head of the government, in other words it names the ministers, decides parliamentary calendar, and its private bills are only entitled to have a budget. He is also the head of all the Inspections which guarantee the application of the laws to Chile.

"Great variation" . Michelle Bachelet could profit from the errors of Sebastian Pinera. "By making the great difference between centrists and extreme right-hand side , explains Marta Lagos, director of the Mori Institute, Pinera lost the pinochetists. At the time of the televised debate, it affirmed that Pinochet had been the worst president of Chile." Unacceptable for some 200 000 voters. "If it loses, it is also because it adopted an aggressive tone, very unusual in an election campaign" , underlines Nibaldo Mosciatti, journalist in radio operator Bio-Bio. "But, to Chile, one always says that that which enters in conflict loses. It is a traumatism of the dictatorship."