Factbox: Where Chile’s top presidential candidates stand on reforms
Conservative frontrunner Sebastian Pinera and center-left Alejandro Guillier lead a crowded field of candidates in Chile’s presidential election on Sunday, widely seen as a referendum on the reforms of outgoing President Michelle Bachelet.
The following are the main policies supported by Pinera and Guillier:
SEBASTIAN PINERA
– A billionaire businessman who served as president from 2010 to 2014, Pinera has promised to make Chile the first country in Latin America to achieve “developed nation” status in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based club of wealthy nations.
– Pinera, the market favorite, would cut corporate taxes to increase investments and said his policies would double economic growth in his term.
ALEJANDRO GUILLIER
– Guillier, a former journalist elected to the Senate in 2013, has pledged to diversify Chile’s economy away from the dominant copper industry. He wants to add value to commodities exports by processing more copper at home and give communities outside Santiago a stronger say in decision-making.
– Following the lead of ally Bachelet, Guillier has called for rewriting Chile’s constitution to formally recognize indigenous communities and to codify the rights of workers to collective bargaining and to strike.
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