During the presidential campaign, as the candidate of the New Majority coalition – the old Concertación plus the Communist Party and other small leftist groups – she made specific commitments that helped raise expectations. Though the government’s program is likely to be less ambitious and qualify many of her campaign promises, the poor and lower middle class – her main electoral base – expect that she will move swiftly, for example, to end for-profit elementary and secondary education and offer free universal tertiary education.