Chileans will vote in the first presidential election in November since the big demonstrations two years ago. People’s dissatisfaction with the prevailing leadership is reflected in the deepening polarization.
Chile As the presidential election approaches, a surprising person has risen to the top of opinion polls: the far right José Antonio Kast. Called the “Chilean Bolsonaro,” Kast is an extreme conservative and populist who promises harsh grips on immigration and communism.
Kast is known for its provocative outputs.
“If Pinochet were alive he would vote for me,” Kast said before the 2017 presidential election. Augusto Pinochet was a military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990.
In 2017, Cast’s vote catch in the presidential election was less than eight percent. This year, however, it may be different.
Even in the early autumn, Kast’s support remained low, but in recent measurements he has even surpassed the election’s pre-election, the Left Coalition. Gabriel Boricin.
Published on Sunday Pulse Ciudadano In the report, Kant led the presidential race with 26.5 percent of the vote. Next came Gabriel Boric with 25 percent of the vote, with the others far behind.
If none the candidate will not receive more than half of the votes, held in Chile in December for the second round of the presidential election. Based on fresh lengths, Boric from the left would win the Cast in the second round. However, anything is possible, as Cast’s popularity has risen sharply in recent weeks.
The success of Caste and Boric is a sign of the deepening political polarization in Chile. The November presidential election is the first since major protests broke out in the country two years ago.
In October 2019, the Chilean dimension came to a head when it was decided to raise metro ticket prices in the capital, Santiago, for the second time in a year. The protests spread throughout the country, claiming dozens of deaths and leading to a vote in Chile a year later to reform the country’s constitution.
José Antonio Kast at the election ceremony on 25 October.
Chile the constitution dates back to the military dictatorship of the 1980s. In the fall of 2020, nearly 80 percent of those who voted supported the drafting of a new constitution.
The consensus ended there. A nation dissatisfied with the prevailing power structures has not found a consensus on the values at which the country should be led.
In the spring of 2021 the Chileans voted for representatives to the 155-seat Constitutional Council, which is tasked with drafting a new constitution. The time will not exceed one year, after which the Chileans will be able to vote on whether they prefer to adopt the new or the current constitution.
The non-aligned and the left won the spring election. It will be reflected in the new constitution. Among other things, the Committee on Constitutional Affairs is committed to the use of gender-neutral language.
“This will be the world’s first woke constitution,” said a political scientist at the University of Chile Robert Funk To The Economist.
Chilean left coalition presidential candidate Gabriel Boric shows his tattoo to an AFP journalist in an interview in Santiago on October 28th.
Left presidential candidate Boric seeks to appeal specifically to the country’s progressive left, that is, to educated youth in particular. His themes emphasize climate, feminism and anti-racism.
However, the tattooed 35-year-old former student protest leader may not appeal to Chile’s older age groups, recalls Americas Quarterly Magazine. The middle class is afraid, for example, of climate regulation under the new constitution, which could affect the country’s copper mines, among other things.
The frustration of the middle class can therefore be channeled into a right-wing populist who promises to fight against gender ideologies, immigration, and globalization.
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