Ignacio Ortiz especialEl Posted billionaire businessman Sebastian Pinera, 60, today became the first president elected in Chile right since 1958, having imposed tight in the second round of elections with 51.61 percent of the vote against 48.39 percent of party candidate Eduardo Frei. Michelle Bachelet welcomed his successor telephone.
Just four hours after the close of the first tables, the Deputy Interior Minister Patrick Roseberry, reported that 99.2 percent of polling stations, Piñera gathered 3,565,050 votes to 3,340,308 Frei , while 2.62 percent had zero votes and 0.75 percent in blanco.Un while later, Piñera appeared publicly at the headquarters of the electoral command, in a hotel in downtown Santiago, with Frei, who had went to greet him with his wife and president hijas.El Chile elected then said that "today more than ever need unity" because the problems facing "very big" and claimed "that was the democracy of the agreements" in the early years of the 90's, after recovery constitutional life, when the two contestants of today were Senators nacionales.Frei quickly admitted his defeat, even when the results were known only 60 percent of the tables, "congratulated his opponent and the fact that the first election defeat Coalition for Democracy in 20 years "is just a stop along the way" because the "ideal" of "social justice and equal opportunities" coalition "will be expressed in every corner of Chile." President Michelle Bachelet also, who came to this election with unprecedented popularity rate near 80 percent-had already phoned his congratulations Piñera and in dialogue transmitted by most broadcasters televisión.Tanto Bachelet as Chile's Frei-who was head of state between 1994 and 2000 - claimed the efforts of the coalition, which ruled the country uninterruptedly since the democratic restoration in 1990
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