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Chile: Presidential and parliamentary elections (pub. Jan. 18, 2010)

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In a run-off presidential election on Jan. 17, Sebastian Pineraof the National Renewal Party (RN), a faction of the centre-right Coalition for Change won 51.6% of the vote, bringing the right to power in Chile for the first time since the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte.

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