Chile’s presideial election has been extended to the second round
The presideial election of Chile, which was held on Sunday, did not have a clear winner and was drawn io the second round.
According to Isna, following a very close competition between the candidate of the Communist Party and his far-right rival in the presideial elections on Sunday in Chile, this election has now been extended to the second round.
“Janet Jara”, the 51-year-old presideial candidate of the Communist Party and the former minister of labor of this coury, who eered the race as a candidate of the ruling ceer-left coalition of Chile, was able to obtain 26.7% of the votes in Sunday’s election after 90% of the votes were coued, but he failed to obtain the 50% threshold to be the definitive winner of the first round of the election.
“José Aonio Caste”, the 59-year-old presideial candidate of the extreme right-wing “Republican” party, also won more than 24.1 perce of the votes in this round of elections, which shows that the voters liked his promises to restore law and order, fight organized crime, and maneuver ai-immigra seimes.
After it became clear that he made it to the second round of the elections, Kast asked the divided right-wing faction to support him unitedly and described this round of elections as an existeial conflict over the future of Chile.
Kast, a politician who admires US Preside Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, the former far-right preside of Brazil, has promised to deport and return tens of thousands of undocumeed immigras and to build hundreds of kilometers of ditches and walls at the border between Chile and Bolivia in the north in order to preve immigras from eering.
Jose Hernandez, a 60-year-old owner of an agricultural company, said after voting for Caste in Sunday’s election: “We wa change, and today the focus of this change is security.”
Although Khara won more votes in the first round of the elections, Kast could take the significa votes of the three eliminated right-wing candidates in the second round of the elections, who also promised to fight against immigras.
In Chile’s presideial election on Sunday, Franco Parisi, a right-wing populist economist who has a large following on social media, came in third, and Yohannes Kaiser, a radical politician active on YouTube, who was elected as a legislator in 2021, came in fourth.
Outgoing Chilean Preside Gabriel Burich was unable to run for another term due to constitutional limits on running for re-election.
According to “Associated Press” report, Khara, like his rivals, set dealing with insecurity and criminals as a top priority and promised to extradite foreigners convicted of drug trafficking, strengthen border security and combat money laundering.
The second and final round of Chile’s presideial election will be held on December 14. Analysts believe that Kast and Khara will try to win the votes of the moderates and the middle class in the second round.
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