Of course, a similar evaluation should be made of Latin America s rightist governments.

In Colombia, everything indicates that President Álvaro Uribe, erroneously labeled a rightist because of his fight against his country s guerrillas, will be re elected.

The key strategic move for the two remaining candidates will be to attract the votes of the Center without losing their core Leftist or Rightist constituencies.

In Colombia, everything indicates that President Álvaro Uribe, erroneously labeled a rightist because of his fight against his country s guerrillas, will be re elected. Oscar Arias is winning in Costa Rica.

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, confounding those who had forecast his political demise, re emerged at the head of a populist rightist coalition that ended up only 0.3 percentage points away from winning.

Flores, a Social Christian candidate representing a rightist alliance, wants to maintain present President Alejandro Toledo s neo liberal policies, which have boosted economic growth, foreign investment, and exports spectacularly over the past four years.

His opponent is Sebastián Piñera, a tycoon, former senator, and presidential runner up in 2006 who represents the main opposition forces Piñera s moderately conservative Renovación Nacional (RN) and the more rightist Union Democrata Independiente (UDI).

Once he had done so, at least half a million were purged under the Anti Rightist campaign, which effectively silenced any opposition from within the Party or from agricultural experts to the changes which would be implemented under the Great Leap Forward.

In the first round of French presidential elections, the extreme right and left received more than 30 of the vote, with Martine Le Pen s anti EU National Front threatening to supplant the center right Union for a Popular Movement as the country s new mainstream rightist party.

Indeed, this burden has helped to fuel the current protests, which seem to mark the end of a political cycle that began with the restoration of democracy in 1990 and culminated in the election in 2010 of a rightist government for the first time since Pinochet stepped down.

Indeed, this burden has helped to fuel the current protests, which seem to mark the end of a political cycle that began with the restoration of democracy in 1990 and culminated in the election in 2010 of a rightist government for the first time since Pinochet stepped down.