Videocrux - Billionaire looks to turn Chile to right in polls

#Videocrux - Billionaire looks to turn Chile to right in polls Billionaire looks to turn Chile to right in polls
Chile could turn to the right for the first time since Pinochet's military dictatorship, according to polls that put a billionaire businessman as the frontrunner in weekend presidential elections. The Sunday vote is to select a successor to hugely popular President Michelle Bachelet, who is barred from seeking reelection.
Piñera to win Chile's election -Polls
In the last few days before Sunday’s presidential election in Chile, supporters of the candidate from the Right are campaigning confidently. Their man, billionaire businessman Sebastian Piñera, is far ahead in the polls in the race to replace socialist incumbent social democrat Michele Bachelet. Chile could turn to the right for the first time since Pinochet's military dictatorship, according to polls that put a billionaire businessman as the front-runner in weekend presidential elections. The Sunday vote is to select a successor to hugely popular President Michelle Bachelet, who is barred from seeking reelection.
Chile's richest man spending heavily to win
Sebastian Pinera, a 60-year-old Harvard-educated tycoon with a fortune estimated by Forbes at $1.2 billion, and has the largest airline in the country, a football team, and a television station is seen as the front-runner with 44 per cent of voter intentions, according to the latest survey. In the country’s last election, Piñera lost to Bachelet. This time, he spent every penny he could to capture the attention of Chileans.
Piñera promising to bring 'change' in Chile
On the campaign trail, Sebastian Piñera would rather talk security, education, and above all else, the promise that has become his battle cry: change.
Run off expected in presidential elections
But support for the two trailing left-wing candidates is strong enough to make a Jan. 17 run-off likely. The challengers want to continue Bachelet's economically successful policies in this prosperous, copper-producing nation. And the outcome of that ultimate vote promises to be close, largely because left-wing ballots split in Sunday's first round of the election will be combined in the second round behind just one candidate.

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