Presidential Election: Chile at the Crossroads
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Less than a month before the presidential runoff, the teams of the presidential candidate, Jeannette Jara, and the Republican Party leader, José Antonio Kast, are strengthening their strategies to add up new voters. The objective of both sides is to convince the voters who voted for the PDG candidate, Franco Parisi, who reached 19.71% of the votes, obtaining third place in the elections. In this sense, since the ruling party they have given sign…
The first round of the Chilean presidential election was won by the communist Jeannette Jara. However, since the four right-wing candidates came together on more than two thirds of the votes, observers give their right-wing populist opponent José Antonio Kast great opportunities in the run-off election. The son of a German Wehrmacht officer is close to the Spanish right-wing populists of Vox.
The big surprise of this Sunday's presidential election was the candidate of the People's Party (PDG), Franco Parisi, who against all odds reached 19.7% of the votes, achieving third place after Jeannette Jara (26.8%) and José Antonio Kast (23.9%), and displacing Johannes Kaiser (13.9%) and Evelyn Matthei (12.4%), who in most of the polls were ahead of him. Their good personal performance also pushed in an important way the PDG parliamentary lis…
The communist candidate and former Labour Minister obtained 26.8% of the votes, while the former ultra-Catholic deputy achieved 23.9%.
The hours pass and the interpretations of what happened this Sunday continue, in the presidential and parliamentary elections, which reconfigured the political map of the country. In the midst of this context, highlights the significant flow of votes obtained by the candidate of the Parido de la Gente, Franco Parisi Fernández, who positioned himself in third place with almost 20% of preferences, according to BioBioChile. Moreover, despite not re…
The official candidate Jeannette Jara and the opponent José Antonio Kast passed the second round in Chile and they are already contesting the support of Franco Parisi, the unexpected third place. Experts consulted by Sputnik explained why the panorama looks more encouraging for the Republican Party candidate.
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