This weekend’s Chilean Presidential Election may go down as the most one-sided affair in recent memory, with former president Michelle Bachelet set to sweep to a second term in office. But while the outcome of Sunday’s poll has never been in doubt, questions over the president-elect’s true political colours continue to polarise public opinion. In this Watch we explain why, although fears of a lurch to the left look overdone, the next government will inherit an economy which has become increasingly vulnerable to external shocks.
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