Tight Chile presidential race seen between ex-president, independent senator


  • World
  • Thursday, 05 Jan 2017

Former president Sebastian Pinera (C) from Chile, Lilian Tintori (R), wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speak during a meeting with representatives of the Venezuelan opposition in Caracas January 26, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean former President Sebastian Pinera and independent centre-left Senator Alejandro Guillier have consolidated themselves as the favourites to go head-to-head in the November general presidential election, a new poll showed on Thursday.

Asked who they would vote for if the elections were held on Sunday, 29 percent of survey respondents pointed to conservative billionaire Pinera, while 26 percent favoured journalist-turned-politician Guillier, the poll run by Gfk Adimark said.

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