President-elect gets testy over stock market and LAN issues

President Michelle Bachelet met for two hours Tuesday with her cabinet to begin coordinating the transition to a new government led by President-elect Sebastian Piñera. Bachelet meets today, Wednesday, with appointed regional leaders for the same purpose.

Piñera, a billionaire businessman with large stock market holdings, defeated Sen. Eduardo Frei on Sunday (ST, Jan. 18) to become Chile’s first democratically elected right-of-center president since 1958, when Jorge Alessandri won office. Piñera takes office on March 11.

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