Chile elects president this Sunday (12/19/2021) in an unprecedented second round due to the confrontation of two opposing options, with projects that promise a change to the social model or the continuity of the free market.
The far-right lawyer José Antonio Kast, 55, faces the young left-wing deputy Gabriel Boric, 35, the minimum age to run for the presidency in Chile.
More than 15 million people are called to go to one of the 2,500 voting centers, which are guarded by more than 20,000 members of the security forces, according to the Interior Ministry.
In the first round, Kast won with 27.9% of the votes, compared to 25.8% for Boric. The participation reached 47%.
Candidate for the Republican Party, Kast offers to maintain the model imposed by the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), which gave Chile social and economic stability, but which two years ago was strongly questioned with massive protests, some very violent. demanding greater equality and social rights.
Boric, from the Approve Dignity alliance, which brings together the Broad Front and the Communist Party, but which in the second round received the support of the entire center-left, proposes moving towards a welfare state, with an offer of basic rights.
A latest online poll by the Brazilian consulting firm AtlasIntel, which consulted 4,062 people between December 17 and 18 and has a margin of error of 1%, positions Boric slightly above, with 49.4%, compared to 47.4% of Kast.
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