Chilean Presidential Election 2017 (Piñera landslide, defeats Guillier with 54%)

[mgop]

will left parties support each other in second round?

[mgop]

i noticed interesting pattern in chile. why incumbent presidents didn't seek re-election in 2009 (bachelet) and 2013 (pinera)?

[mgop]

oh in one way that's good because they can't stay in power for long, but in other way they will stay in politics even longer just with breaks.

[mgop]

Exactly, that is the trade-off (and also one problem is that there's too much pressure for a president to do as many things and reforms as possible without a break).

yeah, in most of europe is even worse, we have president term of 5 years (max 2 terms, can be in a row), and prime minister who has the real power and often isn't elect with majority can rule forever, there is no limit as to office terms of the prime minister.

[mgop]

really isn't smart to have primaries during confederations cup final when chile - germany playing. is that reason why new majority cancelled their primary?

[mgop]

croatian lobby seems strong in christian democratic party. they had radomiro tomić and now carolina goić is leader.

[mgop]

frente amplio and cdp are left wing parties. it's nice to see that croatian abroad are not all from ustashe descent, because their diaspora is mostly those who escape after wwii after supporting nazi occupators. anyway good luck against germany today