In a country of such great contrasts, which ranges from the Atacama desert to the Magellan glaciers, perhaps that is the best metaphor to explain the first round of elections that announce that the next president may fall from the extreme side of the left or the most radical side of the right. There is no middle ground, after years in which the country was predictable, one of the most reliable in the southern American cone, the vote points to the extremes.
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Like the image of the volcano on La Palma, Chile, so far in the distance, but so similar in all the rest, it has long lived with fire in its body and tectonic social movements that announced the explosion. Corruption, lack of trust in traditional parties and especially the protests that in 2019 called for the end of the neoliberal model imposed by the military, are at the origin of the polarization. Gabriel Boric carries in his backpack the votes that came out of those demonstrations. His figure is not radical, but his electoral platform includes the most stale communism, with proposals that sound archaic. The rise of this extreme left has awakened the extreme right, which lived in hiding, longing for the years of the military dictatorship or at least what it means of order and security. His candidate, José Antonio Kast, boasts that if Pinochet lived he would vote for him. His forms are traced to those of Trump, his reference, the Brazilian Bolsonaro. The Venezuelan migrant crisis has done the rest by filling its backpack with xenophobic proclamations against immigration.
In the midst of the fire there are signs of hope, the latest reform includes greater proportionality, which will allow new agreements for the final vote. Hence the importance of Candidate Yasna Provoste may end up playing a decisive role in a swing from the left to the center in the second round in a month. Meanwhile, we will wait at the foot of the volcano that Chile does not end up spitting fire in this already polarized region.
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