Tag: Sebastián Piñera President 2017

• Tuesday, December 19th 2017 - 11:21 UTC

  Markets and investors cheer Piñera, but he faces a determined opposition in Congress

  

  Billionaire conservative Sebastian Piñera will begin a second term as Chile's president in March with a strong mandate after trouncing his center-left opponent in Sunday's election, and local markets soared on hopes of more investor-friendly policies.

• Monday, December 18th 2017 - 05:55 UTC

  Piñera is Chile's next president: he beat the center left candidate by ten points

  

  Billionaire former President Sebastian Piñera easily won Chile's presidential runoff election on Sunday, moving the world's top-copper producing country back to the right. Piñera got 54.6% of the votes to 45.4% for center-left Senator Alejandro Guillier, with nearly all the ballots counted.