The assembly elected him over Mrs. Megawati in October 1999 with high hopes that he would deliver democratic and economic reform.
Now, Mr. Piñera appears to have a fresh opportunity to be seen as the tough, modernizing force that voters were clamoring for when they elected him over former President Eduardo Frei, the candidate for the Concertación coalition, which had held power for two decades.
In districts that are reliably Democratic, for example, the two candidates who will face each other in the general election may both be Democrats, but Republican voters could help a conservative or moderate Democrat get to the run-off and then elect him over his more liberal alternative.
The coalition that elected him has become divided over social issues, but cleaning house was perhaps the principal mandate of Francis' papacy, and the current scandal may remind everyone of that — including the Pope.
Is he going to stand up for the working families who helped elect him?" The battle over the CFPB leadership began soon after Richard Cordray announced his resignation as director on Friday, and selected his deputy, Leandra English, to act as interim director.
"I think the media missed what was the real story that was going to elect him, this grassroots empowerment over the Internet and they don't understand this and there are late to it and they just don't get it," David Fenton a PR wizard and consultant to MoveOn.org told me:.
"They'll say, 'Oh, I'm just one person,' or 'It's just the same kind of people being elected over and over again,' " she said.
There would not necessarily be more citizen-legislators in the House, since in plenty of state and municipal offices the same representatives are elected over and over again for decades.
Brennan's one-time torture endorsement made a newly elected President Obama pass him over when the CIA director job was open in 2009.
Although he was elected with over 96percentt of a public vote in May, turnout was sluggish.
Nigel Roberts, who had been elected to take over the reins sometime this year, will remain as deputy chairman.
