Chilean Communists Oppose Bachelet
The Chilean Communist Party has said it will maintain a position of "demanding opposition" v/v the government of Michelle Bachelet, who will be sworn in on March 11.

"We will keep an open mind to contribute to the fulfillment of commitments, but we will be very demanding, we will not sit there with our arms crossed," said CP President Guillermo Teillier.

The CP voted for Bachelet in the second round, but that support was conditioned on the president-elect´s commitment to work to eliminate the antidemocratic and discriminatory binominal election system and to take other economic, social and environmental measures.

Teillier pointed out that, considering the make-up of the Bachelet-appointed Cabinet and working teams, little can be expected from the neoliberal path her government will take.