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Presidential Election: Blogs and politics

Categories: Latin America, Chile

Chilean ElectionsWe are 13 days from the presidential election. Every night, on TV, before the news hour, the 4 presidential candidates, belonging to different parties or coalitions, have the legal option to publicize their campaign and proposals for 5 minutes each, in all the open channels, at the same time.

There are four in competition, Michelle Bachelet [1], Tomás Hirsch [2] Joaquín Lavín [3] and Sebastián Piñera [4].

Chile is full of advertising for the potential presidents. All the marketing strategies are exposed, all candidates have their webs, but not all have their own personal blogs. País Digital [5], as it was mentioned [6], is hosting their blogs under Presidential Blog Forum [7].

Sebastián Piñera, posts [8] about his vision, or to reply to the media on news about himself, or to talk about what he is doing in his campaign. He posted in his blog a question related to the evaluation of his TV campaign [9], most of the people commented that there was not enough time to express concerns in a deeper way.

In Michelle Bachelet´s blog [10], the are post of supporting groups and herself about main political issues.

Supporters of Joaquín Lavín, have created a blog [11] for him not as successful as the ones of Michelle Bachelet or Sebastián Piñera.

For a quick browse on the political environment click here [12].