Newsweek has this story, posted on November 6. It says that independent presidential candidate Marco Enriquez-Ominami could conceivably win the Presidential election coming soon in Chile. Chile has a two-party system, in which the two major parties are the Conservative Party, and the Concertaction. The Concertaction is a coalition of the Socialist Party and the Christian Democratic Party.

Chile has a two-round presidential election. If no one gets 50% in the first round, there is a run-off. One of the factors favoring the independent candidate is that he is included in presidential debates, and so far he has done well in those debates.