Outsider runs for Chile presidency
Filmmaker with little political experience challenges established candidates.
Published On 11 Dec 2009
The presidential election in Chile was supposed to be a race between two candidates.
But that was before Marco Enriquez Ominami, a 36-year-old filmmaker with only a few years of political experience, erupted onto the scene.
In an outspoken campaign, he has been calling for major social and political changes.
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports from Santiago.