Sondeo del CEP confirma tendencia descrita por otras encuestas

A la derecha no le cabe en la cabeza que pese a todo Bachelet siga creciendo en las encuestas
“…Luego del resultado del última encuesta del Centro de Estudios Públicos [CEP] las reacciones en la derecha no se hicieron esperar. Tanto el empresario Sebastián Piñera [RN] como el senador Juan Antonio Coloma [UDI] se mostraron conformes con los datos que, aseguraron, les entregan proyecciones para llegar a ser una alternativa de gobierno… Entre los corolarios de esta medición, llama la atención el elevado índice de aprobación que presenta el gobierno en la figura de Michelle Bachelet [52%], pese a la percepción de que la corrupción se ha extendido en el país, principalmente en los partidos políticos [59%]… Si bien la Alianza obtuvo un alza de cuatro puntos, han fracasado en el intento de capitalizar los errores de la Concertación. A modo de autocrítica, Piñera dice que el bloque 'ha enfatizado la parte de la fiscalización, la denuncia”, pero requiere una “actitud más positiva, constructiva y de diálogo, lo que no significa que tenga que ser una oposición débil…”

Hacienda y encuesta CEP: Aprobación de Bachelet se debe a que “labor legislativa ha funcionado bien"
“…El ministro de Hacienda, Andrés Velasco, se refirió a los recientes resultados de la encuesta CEP, que indican un alza en la aprobación ciudadana a la Presidenta Michelle Bachelet, señalando que esto se debe al optimismo de los chilenos en la efectividad de los planes de Gobierno, debido a que “más allá de las diferencias, la labor legislativa ha funcionado bien y eso seguirá ocurriendo…"



Tras crisis, Bachelet remonta en la aprobación popular
“…La presidenta chilena Michelle Bachelet logró remontar seis puntos en la aprobación popular, al 52%, pese a la crisis que afecta al oficialismo por una seguidilla de denuncias de actos de corrupción cometidos presuntamente por funcionarios públicos… Una encuesta del Centro de Estudios Públicos (CEP) difundida el jueves señaló que la mandataria creció en aprobación popular del 46% medido en junio-julio al 52% registrado en diciembre… La investigadora del CEP Carmen Le Foulton consideró el incremento de seis puntos en la aprobación de Bachelet como "estadísticamente significativa"… La encuesta del CEP se efectuó entre el 2 y el 20 de diciembre, consultó a 1.505 personas en todo el país, su margen de error es de un 3% y la confiabilidad llega al 95%...”

Aprobación a Bachelet aumenta pese a denuncias de corrupción
“...Los resultados muestran que los casos de corrupción al interior de la gobernante Concertación destapados el año pasado y ocurridos bajo el gobierno anterior no afectaron la evaluación que la ciudadanía hizo de la presidenta… "Este es un aumento estadísticamente significativo", dijo Carmen Le Foulon, investigadora del Centro de Estudios Públicos (CEP), vinculado a la oposición de derecha, al entregar los resultados del segundo sondeo que el centro lleva a cabo desde que la mandataria asumió el cargo, el 11 de marzo del año pasado…”



Corruption Allegations and Score-Settling in Chile
“…The rightwing opposition in Chile has been reveling in the allegations of corruption in the financing of election campaigns by the centre-left governing coalition, but it may now find itself in the dock as accused, rather than accuser… The media spotlight on corruption took a short break from Dec. 10-13 to cover the death and funeral of former dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), who abused his power and his position as army chief until March 1998 to build a personal fortune for his own benefit and that of his family… It is salutary to remember that at the time of his death, Pinochet was not only facing prosecution in four cases linked to human rights crimes, but also two other trials involving secret bank accounts belonging to his wife, his five children and himself. His death at the age of 91 meant that he escaped any reckoning with justice…”

The world's top 10 news stories in 2006
“..,Rise in female power: "Female power" has swept the world. In the political arena, female politicians such as Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal, the U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, and Senator Hillary Clinton have emerged as stars, while in the economic world, Indra Nooyi became the president and chief financial officer of Pepsi Co. But even in 2006, female lawmakers account for just 17 percent of the world's legislators, and the ratio of women whose position is vice president or higher at the world's top 500 companies compiled by Fortune Magazine stands at just 16.4 percent. The glass ceiling is still thick, but the sound of cracks forming in it have become even louder this year…”

2006: Latin America's voting year
“…On Jan. 15, Michelle Bachelet became the first woman to be democratically elected in Latin America. Leading the centre-left Agreement of Parties for Democracy (CPD), she was elected president in a run-off against conservative Sebastián Piñera with 53 per cent of the vote. Bachelet belongs to the Socialist Party (PS), which has been in power ever since Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship ended in 1990. She is considered a moderate socialist and will be in office for four years…”

Is it really goodbye to Pinochet?
“…The question was stark, there on the screen, posed by CNN. And I was being urged to vote, over and over, by frantic friends who, simultaneously, successively, incessantly, were filling my inbox with the news that the Pinochetistas were winning, were voting massively, were flooding the world with the message that the General who had destroyed Chilean democracy, killed our loved ones, devastated our lives, stolen millions, exiled, tortured, persecuted, was the saviour of Chile and a hero. It couldn't be, my friends all said: vote, change the results, we have to win this one…”

The new song of Santiago
“…But the most dramatic sign of change was at Palacio de la Moneda, the stately presidential palace where Allende allegedly committed suicide. Today, the beautifully restored building is occupied by the country's first female president, Michelle Bachelet, a physician and single mother of three. Bachelet and her mother were imprisoned and tortured before fleeing into exile. Her father, a general loyal to Allende, suffered a heart attack and died in custody…”

A brave new women's world
“…Leftist Michelle Bachelet scooped up the Chilean presidency and displayed her leadership credentials by denying dictator Augusto Pinochet - who murdered her father and imprisoned her, her mother and tens of thousands of her compatriots - a state funeral…”

A whiff of corruption mars Chile's squeaky-clean self-image
”… The government is trying to put a positive face on the revelations, saying the very fact that they are coming out and causing an uproar is a sign of a healthy society... “Corrupt countries are those that watch cases like the ones we are seeing with indifference, without astonishment and without reaction,” said Economy Minster Alejandro Ferreiro, a leading voice in the government's effort to restore public confidence… “What we have in Chile are serious, painful, unacceptable corruption cases, but what we fortunately also have is social rejection and indignation”… One scandal shaking the nation of 16 million stems from the discovery in October that a government agency in charge of promoting sports allocated money to scores of programs that did not exist. The suspicion is that part of the money went into political campaign coffers.