The chilean they went en masse on Sunday to the polls to choose a new president and legislators in elections where the most extreme proposals are the ones that seem best positioned.
The suffrage in Chile marks the close of a two-year period in which the country experienced a social outbreak, began to draft a new Constitution and dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic, forming a panorama in which the most extreme proposals are the ones that seem best positioned.
Despite some setbacks, the tables began to work from the first hour, although some places had long lines due to the number of attendees and the sanitary restrictions, which limit the capacity.
Wearing a hat and sunglasses to avoid the inclement sun at a venue in downtown Santiago, nurse technician Carmen Gloria Carrillo said she hoped young people would come to vote.
“If we want things to change, I think it is important that we all vote,” said Carrillo, 46.
Previous polls predicted a clear victory in the first round of the most radical left embodied by Gabriel Boric and the extreme right led by Jose Antonio Kast -both with more than 20% of the preferences-, which would contest the ballot on December 19.
If the scenario is confirmed, the Chileans would give a death letter -at least temporarily- to the two political parties that have governed their destinies since the return of democracy in 1990: the center-left legacy of the Concertación represented by Yasna Provoste and the current right-wing ruling party championed by Sebastian Sichel.
President Sebastian Piñera He was one of the first to vote in a wealthy neighborhood in the east of the capital and called on citizens to vote, ensuring that the necessary health measures have been taken in the midst of the pandemic.
To those who are elected and have to take office on March 11, never forget that they have been elected to serve the people, “said the president after casting his vote.
The first vote counts abroad – with little weight on the national total – yielded a victory for Boric over the other candidates. Suffrage abroad usually favors more left-wing tendencies.
“The results we have obtained so far are very positive, but by the way they must be taken with humility. I do not trust myself and I call people to participate,” Boric told CNN Chile during a tour of his native Punta Arenas, in the extreme south of the country.
Boric, a 35-year-old former student leader, is pointed out by many as the main candidate for La Moneda, by bringing together in Approve Dignity support ranging from the center-left to the Communist Party, to which could be added a more transversal rejection vote against Kast if they end up being measured in the ballot.
The existence – according to polls – of 25% undecided means that analysts do not finish ruling out a possible comeback that will take Sichel or Provoste to the second round.
In New Zealand, the second place was obtained by the virtual candidate Franco Parisi, a mediatic economist based in the United States who did not set foot in Chile during the entire process and who appears as the third force in some polls.
For his part, Kast said that the main thing is that people can attend to vote and speak freely.
Today we have to save our opinions, we said everything we have to say and the result of the election will not change, “he said after voting.
Parliamentarians – the 155 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 27 of whom will be 50 senators – and regional councilors will also be chosen during the day, forming the political board for the next few years, pending the results of the work of the Constitutional Convention .
The polls close at 6:00 p.m. local time and the results begin to add up quickly in an automated system.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx