Presidency postponed

摘要

"We Thought this would be an W eight-month pregnancy but in the end it's going to the full term," joked Michelle Bachelet, a paediatrician, on November17th as she celebrated a bittersweet triumph that took her centre-left New Majority coalition tantalisingly close to the presidency. Having won 47% of the vote, nearly twice as much as her closest rival, Evelyn Matthei of the ruling centre-right Alliance (25%), she now faces a run-off on December 15th.