Piñera apologizes to the Chilean people for the flawed 2012 census

[Judi Lynn]

Piñera apologizes to the Chilean people for the flawed 2012 census
Friday, August 9th 2013 - 04:51 UTC

President Sebastian Piñera asked Chileans to forgive him for a 2012 census that a review panel found to be so flawed it should be thrown out, a political embarrassment for his government months before a general election.


An independent panel appointed by the government of conservative Piñera to review the census recommended on Wednesday that it be discarded and held again with fewer questions in 2015.

Piñera said the government will now seek a second opinion from international experts before deciding whether to discard the census and do it over from scratch or try to correct its errors.

“Mistakes were made in the census and I want to humbly ask Chileans for their forgiveness,” Piñera said at a public event.

His plea comes as Chile's conservative bloc jostles to bolster former Labour Minister Evelyn Matthei as its presidential candidate, before a November election that is widely expected to see ex-President Michelle Bachelet make a comeback to the presidential palace.

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[ocpagu]

1. Apologizing is the least he should do.

Not sure Chileans are aiming to put up with one more of his flaws. Chile needs Bachelet back.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Really. There is no more basic, bottom-line government action than a census.

If you can't do that competently, what are doing governing a country?

But then, "conservatives" these days are into "drowning government in the bathtub" where presumably they would also drown their grandmother if she got to be a drag on profit.

I really, really wish we could change this usage of the word "conservative." So-called "conservatives" are NOT CONSERVATIVE. They are very radical profiteers--destroyers, killers of society.

And ain't it cute that these Chilean radical profiteers are trying to put forward a woman as their window dressing--cuz Batchelet is running! Gawd.

[ocpagu]

3. True, there's nothing conservative about them.

They don't want to conserve anything - but the glass-bubble-worlds they live in -, they rather dismantle the social network that poorest depend upon, reduce the country to shambles, slave away, while at the same time finding ways of making obscene profits from it. Terrorists of the capital.

It's impressive how they openly talk about getting some candidate for presidency like they were picking an apple at the supermarket, LOL. I mean, take a look at the history of the leaders of the Latin American left - Bachelet and her family, Chávez, Morales, Correa, the Kirchners, Lula, Dilma... people imprisioned, tortured, heroes of democracy, people that were always in the right side at the critical moments their countries passed through... and they come with a "handsome" guy who dates one different model per party, or a socialite who spends 2/3 of her life in Miami... or worse, a creep, traitor of the left, like José Serra. I think they'll soon use Maria Corina Machado in Venezuela.

Clueless, the right-wing...