Chile's Bachelet favored to win presidency

“You almost feel sorry for her because she's going to be stuck between the future and the past,” said Peter Siavelis, a political science professor at Wake Forest University and author of “Democratic Chile: The Politics and Policies of a Historic Coalition”.
 
“There all these demands in the streets for constitutional reform but she's facing a Congress that's going to be elected by the binominal elections system,” Siavelis said.

“There's not going to be a majority there. So the influence of the dictatorship is going to impact on her reforms."