SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's right-wing bloc said it chose former labour minister Evelyn Matthei as its presidential candidate, leaving two women whose fathers stood on opposite sides of the country's radical political divide in the 1970s to contest the election.
The splintered Alianza bloc, seeking to avert an electoral disaster in November against popular ex-president Michelle Bachelet, scrambled to find a new candidate after former front-runner Pablo Longueira unexpectedly dropped out last week due to ill health.
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