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17 de mayo de 2021, 4:16Santiago de Chile, May 17 (Prensa Latina) The right-wing parties were hit hard in the mega-elections this weekend in Chile, in which the independent and the left-wing parties obtained resounding triumph

Chiles ruling coalition of Conservative President Sebastián Piñera was the biggest loser of the weekend None of Chiles traditional political parties has managed to win at least one-third of the seats at stake in this past weekends elections to appoint a new Constituent Assembly which will have to write up a new constitution to replace the one from 1980 which was inherited from Augusto Pinochets military dictatorship Turnout was around 37% of the 14.9 million registered vot...

Full article Mujica stressed “that package called the LUC” needs discussing because most Uruguayans “have no idea what it is about.” Former Uruguayan President José Pepe Mujica Wednesday launched an appeal to call for a referendum to revoke 135 articles of a governments Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC), which his opponents describe as retrograde. Mujica joined that campaign through a recorded video in which he asked the militants of the ...

Daniel Jadue, the mayor of Recoleta and Communist Party candidate for the presidential elections. | PCC Working and marginalized people in Chile can now see possibilities of relief from the political grief of decades. A new constitution is in the works. And Daniel Jadue, author of an astonishingly progressive program as mayor of Recoleta municipality, a commune in the north of Santiago Province, is a presidential candidate. The election is set for Nov. 21, 2021. Chileans will vote on May 15-16 ...

Daniel Jadue, the mayor of Recoleta and Communist Party candidate for the presidential elections. | PCC Working and marginalized people in Chile can now see possibilities of relief from the political grief of decades. A new constitution is in the works. And Daniel Jadue, author of an astonishingly progressive program as mayor of Recoleta municipality, a commune in the north of Santiago Province, is a presidential candidate. The election is set for Nov. 21, 2021. Chileans will vote on May 15-16 ...

Deputy candidates: the opposition’s taboo National Coalition has not defined a mechanism for the election of candidates, while this subject “has not been discussed” in the Citizens’ Alliance 5 mayo, 2021 Few dare to talk about it, many see it as a matter for “later”, almost all agree: “at some point we will talk about it”. The deputy candidates are a taboo subject within the main opposition platforms: the National Coalition and the Citizens’ Alliance.   How will the candida...

Uruguays ex-president Pepe Mujica home after fish bone scare Issued on: 28/04/2021 - 23:54 Mujica became a cult figure during his 2010-15 rule, known as the worlds poorest president for giving away most of his salary and driving an old Volkswagen Beetle Pablo PORCIUNCULA BRUNE AFP 2 min Montevideo (AFP) Uruguays leftist ex-president Jose Mujica, 85, returned home Wednesday after swallowing a fish bone and requiring surgery, doctors said. Surgeons fou...

Montevideo: Uruguays leftist ex-president Jose Mujica, 85, will undergo surgery for a fish bone lodged in his throat, staff at the hospital where he was admitted told AFP. The former guerilla fighter, known during his term as the worlds "poorest" president, will go under the knife later Tuesday for what his personal physician said was a "minor" procedure. "Tomorrow hell be back home," the doctor, Raquel Pannone, told El Pais newspaper. Attempts to remove the bone without anesthesia were unsucce...

Fish bone lands world’s poorest president in hospital Fish bone lands world’s poorest president in hospital The world’s poorest president Jose Mujica, 85, will undergo surgery for a fishbone lodged in his throat, On Tuesday, according to PR. Uruguay’s former president Mujica will go under the knife later Tuesday for what his personal physician said was a “minor” procedure.” The Uruguayan doctor, Raquel Pannone, t...

Mujica became a cult figure during his 2010-15 rule, known for giving away most of his salary and driving an old Volkswagen Beetle. He remains a figurehead of the Broad Front, the leftist coalition in power from 2005 until it was ousted in 2019 elections by centre-right leader Luis Lacalle Pou. Last October, Mujica resigned from frontline politics, quitting his Senate seat amid the coronavirus epidemic, saying a weakened immune system put him at risk and staying in the office was no alternative...