US EditionChilean Election Seen as Test of LatAm’s Leftist Regimes
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The Star Kuala LumpurChilean right wing eyes return to power as crime, migration dominate election
SANTIAGO - Chileans are voting in a presidential election on Sunday that's pitting the governing leftist coalition against an array of right-wing candidates and will also redefine the country's legislature. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Santiago, Chile. Six years after the social explosion that mobilized more than a million people in the streets and opened way to the left in power, Chile is experiencing a political turn marked by fear of crime and growing support for ultra-right candidates. Plaza Italia, symbol of the massive protests of 2019, is being transformed by excavators into a new park. The remnants of the movement that demanded better pensions, health and education hav…
The latest polls confirm a change in the Chilean political climate. The wear and tear of the government of Gabriel Boric, the citizen priority for security and the footprint of the constitutional plebiscite of 2022 explain why the opposition arrives with an advantage within a few hours of the presidential election. Officialist Jeannette Jara leads the intention to vote, but without the strength to win in the second round, according to experts. T…
Chilean election seen as test of LatAm’s leftist regimes
Chilean voters head to the polls on Sunday in an election seen as a bellwether for leftist regimes in Latin America. The Communist Party’s Jeannette Jara and far-right candidate José Antonio Kast are leading polls, though neither is expected to secure the 50% of votes needed to avoid a second round. Analysis suggests Kast would win a run-off, heralding a marked departure from the current leftist government. Despite widespread optimism at the sta…
The candidates of the radical right, José Antonio Kast and the libertarian Johannes Kaiser , would be tied around 20 percent of the intention to vote and it will be this Sunday, day 16, when it is defined at the polls which of them will pass to the second round of the Chilean presidential elections to confront the candidate of the ruling party, the communist Jeanette Jara , who would receive 33.6 percent of the votes. These data are included in …
A strong depreciation of the Chilean peso and the stock market in case Johannes Kaiser moves to the second round, is one of the scenarios estimated by Creditcorp Capital in a report sent to customers, entitled Chile Elections. However, for the investment bank, the most likely scenario, according to the polls, is a second round between Jeannette Jara (officialism) and José Antonio Kast (right), “to which we assign 70% probability.” While “Kaiser …
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