US EditionChile votes in presidential race expected to lurch country to the right
- On December 14, Chileans head to the polls in a runoff expected to produce a sharp rightward turn, with nearly 15.6 million registered voters set to cast ballots.
- With public safety front and center, voters prioritized crime and migration as rising organized crime rattled the electorate and President Gabriel Boric's approval dropped to 30%, prompting border deployments.
- Kast's path rests on consolidating right-leaning voters as Jeannette Jara won 26.85% and Kast finished second with 23.92%, with projections giving Kast more than 50%.
- Markets reacted positively to Kast's first-round strength as investors lifted the Chilean peso and MSCI’s Chile equity benchmark last month, despite his Republican Party lacking a congressional majority to pass $6 billion in cuts and deport over 300,000 immigrants.
- The contest is the first under mandatory voting and automatic registration, with Kast dodging a December 3 question on pardoning Miguel Krassnoff and about 20% undecided or blank voters.
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Chileans voting for president are choosing between starkly different candidates: a lifelong communist or the far-right son of a former Nazi
Chileans head to the polls on Sunday, and an arch-conservative pledging mass migrant expulsions is strongly favored over his leftist opponent. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source The post Chileans voting for president are choosing between starkly different candidates: a lifelong communist or the far-right son of a former Nazi appeared first on RocketNews.
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Chileans will vote in a runoff presidential election on Sunday that is expected to result in the South American country’s sharpest rightward shift since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990.
Until recently, the left-wing candidate has tried to win back disappointed voters - but her competitor remains the favourite. Today, Chile elects a new president or a new president in a run-off election. By Daniel Stender.
In the posts of La Alameda that crosses Santiago de Chile the local newspapers rush their last covers before writing the story again. This Monday there will be few surprises and everyone will have the same image: that of the new president of the country. More than 15 and a half million Chileans will come again to the polls this Sunday to vote in the second round of the elections, also known as ballotage. On this occasion the ballot will have onl…
Chile votes in presidential race expected to steer country to the right
Chileans will vote in a runoff presidential election on Sunday that is likely mark the sharpest rightward shift of the South American country since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990. As almost 16 million citizens prepare to cast their ballots, even detractors of ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast say the candidate whose radical views lost him the past two elections is now almost certain to become Chile’s next leader.
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