Radio Havana Cuba

Santiago de Chile, October 28 (RHC) -- Mercopress news agency reported on Monday that Chilean former president and opposition coalition New Majority candidate Michelle Bachelet has presented her government's program. This will consist of a review of the constitution, education and tax reforms, legalizing same sex marriage, government managed pension funds and strengthening unions' bargaining power,.

The Socialist leader who is running in a coalition that also includes Christian democrats and Communists, said “Chile needs a constitution that takes into account the changes of recent decades, which reflects our everyday Chile and establishes a clear relation between the State and citizens”.

Likewise she announced an educational reform “from kindergarden, to high school to university and technical professional institutions which is not motivated by profit and is clearly integrated”.

“Education is a social right and not a consumer good, and if it is a social right: why then should it depend on what one can afford and pay?” said Bachelet. She was president from 2006 to 2010 and is favored to repeat next month according to all public opinion polls.

Bachelet said she would target “those who have more, who will have to pay and contribute more” in such a way that revenue increases three percentage points of GDP, of which 2.5 will be from changes in the fiscal structure and 0.5 through measures to combat both elusion and evasion.