'Abstention' the main challenge for Chilean presidency election run-off on Sunday

Friday, December 13th 2013 - 12:13 UTC

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Chileans are set to head to the polls this Sunday to choose their next president, but experts fear much more than half the electorate will opt not for Michelle Bachelet or Evelyn Matthei, but to stay at home on election day instead. The election’s first round, held Nov. 17, saw the debut of the voluntary voting system in Chilean presidential elections and a turnout of 6.7 million, half-a-million-votes less than were counted in 2010, when voting was still mandatory for those on the electoral role. Read full article

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Anglotino
We have a saying “First world problems”.

It is a sign of how far Chile has developed that this is considered one of the most pressing problems in voting. Not the chance of coup or violence or politicians ignoring the vote…. but that people are that content and unstressed by their country's government that they don't even feel the need to get out and vote.

Everyone accepts the vote will be free.
Everyone accepts the vote will be adhered to.

Most countries that are democracies can't even get those two right.
Dec 13th, 2013 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Sergio Vega
Yes, it´s a demonstration of the development level we have reached....but we need people take care of the future of this development because with both alliances the democracy will be kept but the development will be too much different between them......One represent the same kind of leadership we had during the 20 years of Concertacion Gvts. with a lack of economic growth and just equating to down instead to up.....in the other side, the candidate means consolidate the last four years of growth in all order of issues....
The above reasons numbered force us to make all the effort to convince citizens to be at the poll stations on next Sunday to decide the future of the country as progressive with Evelyn or regressive with Michelle......What the votes count result will be what we deserve as country.....no more no less......
Dec 13th, 2013 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
Nabo del (2)

JUAJUAJUAJUAJUAJUAJUARAJAJA….
We, filthy Marxists-Leninist, Maoist, Trotskyist, Castrista Communists are much better than you Momios to herd the Brainless Proletarian Masses to the ballot boxes in order to gain complete and utter dominance over the Free World and sap its life essence…..
JUAJUAJUAJUAJUAJUAJUARAJAJA….
Dec 13th, 2013 - 06:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
Turnip at 3

Chile worries whether people will vote this weekend.
Argentina worries whether people will loot this weekend.

As I said, First World Problems…. for Chile that is. Third world problems for Argentina.
Dec 13th, 2013 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
Booooring C. C. C.
Dec 13th, 2013 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
Poor El Turnip from Chubut, having trouble swallowing your own medicine. Hasn't been a good few weeks for you needing to disappear from so many threads.

Anyway, here are to all the Chilean that will make the effort to get out and vote this weekend.

¡Viva la democracia!

Just say NO (to looting).
Dec 14th, 2013 - 01:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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The Chilean perspective
If everyone that voted last month for Evelyn votes again but this time they take someone else who didn't turn up to vote in the first round and they also vote for her, we will win. It's a long shot and I don't think the silent majority will do the right thing and turn out for her, so we better get used to a couple of percentage points of lower growth and a couple of percentage points of higher unemployment with the concertacion back behind the wheel. I wonder what gig La Gordis will give that asshole Osvaldo Andrade, president of the Socialist party?
Dec 14th, 2013 - 04:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 3 Lunatic

You been on the grass again?

You know the loonies are supposed to keep “off” the grass:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQJo2p2_ncw
Dec 14th, 2013 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Troy Tempest
3 think

YOU are “booring”
Dec 14th, 2013 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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