Allende granddaughter accepts vote defeat in Chile
Nov 14, 2012, 10:20 PM
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – The granddaughter of the Chilean president ousted by the military coup that led to the Pinochet dictatorship has conceded defeated in a mayoral election but says she’ll stay in politics.
Maya Fernandez Allende lost the mayor’s race in the Nunoa district of Santiago by 30 votes in a recount announced Tuesday. Initial results had put Allende ahead last month.
She says she will now step down as a Nunoa local council member but plans to run for Congress.
The 41-year-old Allende spent her childhood in Cuba, where her mother lived in exile after Marxist President Salvador Allende killed himself during Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 coup.
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