Chile’s Right Brawls for the Country’s Future
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Chile’s Right Brawls for the Country’s Future
Latin America Chile’s Right Brawls for the Country’s Future Round one of the upcoming presidential election will feature one candidate from the left and four from the right. Campaign season is well underway in the South American country of Chile, which is closing in on the first round of its presidential election in mid-November. This election is particularly unusual, with four of the five major candidates in the running coming from the Chilean…
The signs that Chile’s candidate Come on, Evelyn Matthei, has received in the past few months have not been particularly auspicious. If a few months ago the vast majority of the polls agreed that she could win well in the elections, now it is the Republican flagman José Antonio Kast who clearly takes the lead, even in the second round, where some polls already show him much more competitive than Matthei in front of Jeannette Jara, the official c…
The survey also revealed that citizens prefer radical changes over moderate reforms, even from right-wing sectors and among those who do not identify politically.
The unexpected stagnation of the ruling candidate, Jeannette Jara, reopened a scenario that seemed banished. Today, the possibility that Evelyn Matthei will end up leaving the ruling party out by positioning herself as the most competitive option to face in the second round José Antonio Kast, who leads the preferences. Politics is the art of the improbable and has the ability to knock down certainties as quickly as he builds them. In the Chilean…
The latest figures from the Citizen Panel-UDD show that José Antonio Kast is ranked as the favorite with 28%, doubling his competitor Matthei. Instead, Jara barely makes progress. To read the full article, visit The Times in Spanish Source
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