First Female Chilean President?

[drain.you]

First Female Chilean President?
Michelle Bachelet

Soaring at the top of the polls, it seems that this socialist from Coalition of Parties for Democracy (made up of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), the Party for Democracy (PPD), the Socialist Party (PS), and the Social Democrat Radical Party (PRSD) - she is member of the Socialist party) is going to become the first female president.
She is deemed to become one of the most left-leaning presidents of all time (in Chile) if elected. Her father was killed when Pinochet came to power. Also she and her mother were tortured and then exiled to Australia under Pinochet. Pinochet may die under her rule and he is entitled to a state funeral due to being a former president, will be interesting to see how she deals with this if elected.

The election is Sunday 11th December 2005.
If she wins outright then she will be president. If not a clear majority then the two leading parties will take part in a further election early next year.

Keep your eye on this one, she could become a close friend of Chavez :)

[bolshevik butcher]

This would be fantastic for latin american socialism. It looks like 2006 yr is going to be vital, there are lots of elections on the cards. Bolivia and nicaragua are also liekly to 'go socialists.' But is she going to deliver? I mean chile must have learned form Alended that socialists need to act decisivley if put in power.

[Cyber Communist]

I would not get your hopes up on this development in Chile.

The Chilean 'Socialist' Party is an ultra reformist organisation that is a member of the 'Socialist' International (SI), the global group of centre parties that includes the Democrat Party (U$A), New Labour (Britain), SPD (Germany) and the dictatorial NDP (Eygpt) of the tyrant, Hosni Mubarak.

The Chilean 'Socialist' Party does not even have any of it's radical policies of the Allende era, despite the Allende government having it's own faults which if corrected, could have prevented the 1973 military coup of General Pinochet.

The Chilean 'Socialist' Party has been in government with Christian Democrats and a liberal centre party (Party of Democracy) since 2000.

The Chilean 'Socialist' Party has supported the FTAA and other U$ backed 'free' trade agendas as well as opposing any move to even a statist socialism, let alone any real moves towards a workers state and the destruction of capitalism.

So what if the 'Socialist' candidate had lost family members in the 1973 coup. From the looks of it, she has not learnt any lessons from that era about how the coup was a generic process of capitalist 'democracy' giving way to capitalist dictatoship, when the class struggle got to intense in Chile b y 1972-3.

For all revolutionary socialists/communists/anarchists, this development is nothing but another meaningless change of faces in capitalist politics.

Let focus on the working class and leave the reformists and sell out social democrats to rot with their capitalist masters.