Chilean Election Day Public Holiday Drive

Sources: Tramitación de proyectos (Congreso Nacional de Chile) and Chile bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Chilean union Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT) has called on the government of Chile to declare Sunday, December 15, 2013, the date of the presidential election second round as a compulsory non-working public holiday (feriado irrenunciable) throughout Chile. [full story]