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In the second count released by the Deputy Interior Minister Patrick Rosende, about 59,99% of the votes cast, Pinera won 44.23% of the vote.

Pinera 60 years , is an economist with a doctorate from Harvard in the last presidential elections of 2005 also passed the ballot next to the socialist Michelle Bachelet, who beat him by seven points.

Frei, an engineer civil 67, who ruled from 1994-2000, remains behind with 30.5%.

The wayward deputy Marco Enriquez-Ominami, gets a 19.39%, and the Jorge Arrate former socialist who represents a coalition led by communists, is 5.86%.

Enriquez-Ominami, 36, left the Socialist Party last June because he was forbidden participate in the primaries to become the standard-bearer Frei ruling.

Adventure election Enriquez-Ominami, who lived in exile in Paris until age 13, played down vote to Pinera and more Frei and attended by people unhappy with the agreement governing, in power since 1990.

polls and analysts predict neither candidate will get 50% plus one vote to avoid a second round .

“This election is more about who will lead the country about the direction the country will take. The big surprise of this election is that all applicants are proposing very similar policies, The AP said the analyst and academic Patricio Navia.

In addition to the presidential election, 120 deputies are renewed and half of the 38 senators. The Congress is now dominated by the rightist opposition, as some senators and deputies left the coalition of four pro-government parties and created a new reference or declared themselves independent.

For the first time the coalition pact with Communist Party (PC), which is beyond the congress because the electoral law inherited from the past military regime encourages large party blocs, and led parliamentary candidates in constituencies where the ruling party did not carry his own.

If your computer obtains at least one deputy chairman Guillermo Teillier, called on his supporters to vote for Frei in the second round. If you do not win any parliamentary decision is likely to remain in the hands of each member.

Analysts agree that the votes obtained by Enriquez-Ominami be distributed more or less, in a Pinera and third to two thirds for Frei, who also would add the votes of the Communists, which would make the ballot in a closely contested event.

“The second round will be … Like the last two presidential elections: very close, very close, with the only difference that for the first time, the first possibility is an opposition candidate, told the AP the analyst and scholar Ricardo Israel.

added that the strong difference between Pinera and Frei is not decisive on the ballot because “it will produce a natural diversion Arrate supporters and the vast majority of supporters of Marco Enriquez-Ominami for Frei a great mobilization of government and public employees, which forces us to think that the difference is going to take Pinera in the first round, not be repeated in the second, which will be very hard fought. “

Arrate called a couple of weeks ago to Enriquez-Ominami and Frei to join in a united front to prevent the triumph of Pinera on the ballot. Frei accepted the call on Wednesday, but Enriquez-Ominami flatly refused. However, on Sunday morning opened the possibility of negotiating by Frei.