Another Opportunity for Zhirinovsky?
Chileans vote for president, woman leading
Undoubtedly, Vladimir Zhirinovsky will have something to say about this.
Chileans voted for a new president on Sunday and were expected to elect the South American country’s first woman leader, a socialist who is seen beating a moderate conservative billionaire.
Three major media outlets projected Michelle Bachelet, a medical doctor and former defense minister, would win with 53 percent of the vote, shortly before the first official vote count was due around 6:30 PM.
Bio Bio radio and television stations Canal 13 and TVN, all said opposition candidate Sebastian Pinera would lose with 47 percent of the vote, based on their own tally of official counts at the first polling stations to close.
Bachelet, imprisoned and tortured during the 1973-1990 Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, would be the fourth consecutive president from the center-left coalition that formed in the 1980s to oppose Pinochet. It has run the copper-producing country of 16 million people since he stepped down in 1990.
“Today is the day of the citizens. It’s their decision. We’re very calm and very optimistic,” Bachelet, 54, said before entering a polling station in eastern Santiago to vote.
Zhirinovsky recently went off the deep end about Condi Rice, another powerful single woman. “If she has no man by her side at her age, he will never appear,” Zhirinovsky ranted on. “Condoleezza Rice needs a company of soldiers. She needs to be taken to barracks where she would be satisfied.”
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