Who's competing for power in 2022?
As electoral years go 2022 is set to be unusually quiet in Latin America. Those elections that are scheduled to take place, however, are likely to be loud and noisy affairs.
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Bachelet, unlike Rousseff, tries to grasp the nettle
Pushed against the ropes, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet has come out swinging, replacing her most senior cabinet ministers, announcing plans for a constitutional reform and rushing out an anti-corruption initiative. Bachelet could never have predicted such a precipitate fall in popularity, to just 29%, barely a year after taking office with an emphatic 62% of the vote to secure a second term. Bachelet’s proactive response stands in stark contrast, however, to that of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, who is suffering a similar fate – a sharp decline in popularity in the wake of a serious corruption scandal and being beset by economic and political difficulties – but has looked paralysed.