And, he said, "people tell me that district won't elect a hard right-wing candidate."

In some cases, this means a triangulaire is avoided, and the left is united against a single right-wing candidate.

As the major right-wing candidate, he polled very poorly, achieving just 15.6% of the vote.

The anti-establishment vote on Sunday is expected to be sizeable, with most of it going to two right-wing candidates.

That, too, is a plus for him in a blue state where voters would be unlikely to accept a hard-line right-wing candidate.

As in Paris, the official right-wing candidate there was handicapped by a rival.

Together, conservative or right-wing candidates won 59.2 percent of the vote on Sunday.

Running as a right-wing, economically conservative candidate on the latter ticket, he stood for the Presidency in 1983 and 1989.

One right-wing presidential candidate has already called for the dissolution of Congress.

That was the highest percentage of the vote received by any right-wing presidential candidate in the 20th century in Chile.