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Empresas y finanzas

MORI poll shows narrow Pinera Chile presidency win


    SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera is poised to narrowly win Chile's presidency in a Sunday run-off with 50.9 percent of the vote, pollster MORI said Wednesday, within the survey's margin of error.

    Pinera was seen defeating ex-President Eduardo Frei, who the poll gave 49.1 percent of the vote, wresting power from the centre-left coalition that has ruled Chile for two decades since the end of General Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship.

    MORI said the poll had a margin of error of 3 percent, and comprised interviews with 1,200 people across Chile between January 1 and January 9.

    (Reporting by Rodrigo Martinez and Simon Gardner, editing by Vicki Allen)