Tag: 2021 Chile elections

• Wednesday, December 15th 2021 - 21:10 UTC

  Former Chilean President Bachelet announces she will vote for Boric

  

  Former Chile President and current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Wednesday admitted she would support leftwing candidate Gabriel Boric for the Dec. 19 presidential runoff against far-right candidate José Antonio Kast.

• Sunday, November 21st 2021 - 10:28 UTC

  Chile: Far-left and far-right hopefuls poised to make it through to runoff in Sunday's presidential elections

  

  Chile is electing its new President Sunday. But to be more accurate and since no candidate looks poised to a first-round victory, what the South American country is voting for is just the shortlist for Dec. 19's runoff.

• Friday, October 29th 2021 - 23:51 UTC

  Chile: Piñera says his impeachment is politically driven

  

  Chile's President Sebastian Piñera Friday downplayed through his legal team a motion for his impeachment on the grounds that -in his view- it was all “an ostensible political-electoral maneuver” based on “manifestly false” facts which were revealed in the so-called Pandora Papers report.

• Wednesday, October 13th 2021 - 22:08 UTC

  Petition for Piñera's impeachment filed at Chile's Lower House

  

  Chilean Deputies Wednesday filed for the impeachment of President Sebastián Piñera for his ivolvement in financial and entrepreneurial transactions disclosed earlier this month in the so-called Pandora Papers.

• Saturday, August 28th 2021 - 13:05 UTC

  Chilean Senate debates whether to make voting mandatory ahead of November election

  

  The Chilean Senate is debating a bill whether to make voting in national elections mandatory, a highly controversial issue since lawmakers of the ruling coalition are against the initiative while the opposition insists in approving it to increase the participation percentage.

• Tuesday, July 27th 2021 - 06:34 UTC

  Young political leader from Punta Arenas leads presidential vote intention in Chile

  

  Gabriel Boric, 35, born and raised in Punta Arenas, could be the next Chilean president according to the latest CADEM public opinion poll, particularly since in the primary of the alliance of parties to which he belongs, he clearly beat a Marxist candidate sponsored by the Chilean communist party.