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Montevideo, May 12th 2025 - 08:59 UTC

Tag: Chile elections

  • Tuesday, April 8th 2025 - 08:26 UTC

    Chile's Labor Minister resigns to run for president

    Jara was deemed the Communist Party's best option

    Jeannette Jara resigned Monday as Chile's Labor Minister after being chosen by the Communist Party to run for president. She announced her decision after conferring with President Gabriel Boric Font at La Moneda. The Communist Party confirmed her candidacy on Saturday.

  • Wednesday, January 12th 2022 - 09:33 UTC

    Gabriel Boric officially proclaimed Chilean president elect; takes office March 11

    Boric spent holidays with his family at his home town, Punta Arenas, where against his wishes the local Council declared him “Favorite Son” of Magallanes Region capital

    On Monday the Chilean Elections Qualifying Tribunal, Tricel, officially proclaimed Gabriel Boric as president-elect of Chile, following his victory in the runoff last 19 December. The ceremony was held at the Tricel offices in Santiago but under the most strict security and sanitary measures given the surge in Covid 19 cases.

  • Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

    The right enemy a major asset in politics

    However Macron’s nightmare is having to face Valérie Pécresse, the new leader of Les Républicains, who is reasonable enough to compete with Macron for the center right vote

    By Gwynne Dyer – The right enemy can be a major asset in politics, as Chilean voters have just demonstrated once again. All the opinion polls had the two presidential candidates neck and neck before the election, but a few days before the runoff vote it came out that the father of far-right candidate José Antonio Kast was a Nazi.

  • Monday, December 20th 2021 - 23:50 UTC

    Chilean presidency Sunday runoff manages a record turnout of voters, 56,6%

    This was the first time also that more than half of registered Chileans did effectively vote

    The Chilean presidency runoff this Sunday attracted more voters than the first round, November 21, when only 47,34% of the registered electorate turned out. In effect with 99% of votes counted, 56,59% of Chileans went to the polls, a total of 8,252.420 which compares with the 7.115.790 of November.

  • Monday, December 20th 2021 - 12:55 UTC

    Boric wins runoff to become Chile's youngest ever President

    Boric, backed by a leftist coalition, brought more centrist advisers onto his team and promised that any changes would be gradual and fiscally responsible.

    Leftwing Deputy Gabriel Boric (35) beat first-round frontrunner Conservative José Antonio Kast in Sunday's presidential runoff to become Chile's youngest-ever head of state. After more than 90% of the votes were counted, Boric led by 56% against Kast's 44%.

  • Saturday, December 18th 2021 - 09:38 UTC

    Bloomberg's pessimistic outlook of Chile's once shinning future

    The pace of foreign outflows has accelerated, reaching US$ 8.8 billion in six months and US$ 24.3 billion in the past two years, according to data from the central bank

    For decades, Chileans watched from afar as their South American neighbors grappled with galloping inflation, financial crashes, and extreme political swings, destabilizing forces that compelled the wealthy to send hundreds of billions of dollars to havens in Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, or the U.S.

  • Tuesday, December 14th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

    Kast closes in on Boric ahead of Chile's presidential runoff

    Boric is slightly ahead in the polls. Monday's debate made no difference

    A new survey has shown Conservative candidate José Antonio Kast has narrowed the gap between him and his leftwing opponent Gabriel Boric, who according to most polls, is expected to win the Dec. 19 presidential runoff in Chile.

  • Monday, December 6th 2021 - 07:06 UTC

    Mapuches strike again in southern Chile

    Mapuche groups seek the installation of a sovereign state comprising Chile's southern center of Chile and parts of Argentina

    With just about two weeks to go before the highly-polarized presidential elections between radical candidates from the left and the right, a group claiming to be fighting for the rights of the Mapuche indigenous peoples Friday committed yet another arson attack in the Biobio region in southern Chile. The fire affected a house and two sheds, it was reported.

  • Saturday, December 4th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

    Kast now vows to defend women's rights if elected President of Chile

    “When you make a mistake you have to apologize and I apologize,” Kast said

    Chile's far-right presidential candidate José Antonio Kast Friday apologized for previous mistakes and vowed not to terminate the Women's Ministry if he is elected on December 19.

  • Wednesday, November 24th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

    The main “political party” of Chile's presidential election: 50% + abstention

    Kast and Boric must try and convince half of the electorate to take an interest in the ballot

    Although long queues at voting places and the delay suffered by many voters gave the impression that last Sunday's election in Chile had triggered a massive attendance, later in the day the Electoral Service figures showed exactly the contrary, just over 7 million Chileans bothered to go and vote for the next Chilean president.

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