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Montevideo, June 22nd 2025 - 16:08 UTC

Tag: Evelyn Matthei

  • Tuesday, May 13th 2025 - 09:51 UTC

    Chile: Presidential frontrunner wants maximum security prison built in the desert

    The prison would be located in the desert, north of Copiapó, in the Atacama region, Matthei pointed out

    Presidential candidate Evelyn Matthei proposed building a maximum security prison in the Atacama desert, north of Copiapó, to combat organized crime by isolating the leaders of Chile's criminal gangs.

  • Monday, May 12th 2025 - 10:43 UTC

    Chile: Boric's image plunges and Matthei's soars

    In case of a runoff, Matthei would prevail against any possible rival

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font's disapproval has plunged to 70%, matching previous high records from Jan. 2023 and May 2024, while his approval stood at 27%, according to the latest Cadem Plaza Pública survey released in Santiago during the weekend.

  • Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 10:27 UTC

    Boric condemns presidential hopeful's remarks regarding Pinochet's regime

    Matthei said the coup was necessary to keep Chile from becoming th next Cuba

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font strongly condemned opposition leader Evelyn Matthei’s justification of the 1973 coup d’état that overthrew Salvador Allende. Boric insisted that Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's military dictatorship (1973-1990) was “criminal and illegitimate” and noted that nothing justified the murders, disappearances, tortures, and exiles that ensued

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 08:38 UTC

    The woman who will lead Chile’s counter-revolution, according to The Economist

    Evelyn Matthei, currently mayor of a posh Santiago suburb comfortably leads opinion polls for November 2025 presidential election

    The graffiti are still visible. Walls shout: “Death to the police!” Bus shelters demand: “No more private pensions!” Yet the occasionally violent social upheaval that rocked Chile from 2019 to 2022 is past. And the radical left-wing movement it propelled to power is now unpopular, having discovered that governing is harder than protesting.

  • Monday, November 13th 2023 - 14:03 UTC

    Chilean president has 59% disapproval; polls show 42% do not support new constitution

    Apparently with Chile hosting the PanAmerican Games, which are now over, optimism has turned into a 59% disapproval of Boric

    The assessment of Chilean president Gabriel Boric' performance as registered by pollster Cadem shows that support for the head of state, following several weeks of stabilization, has again fallen four points and now stands at 33%.

  • Monday, December 16th 2013 - 11:02 UTC

    Bachelet sweeps in but as in the first round abstention prevailed

    The president-elect celebrates but on Sunday 5.7 million ballots were cast out of over 12 million

    Michelle Bachelet is set to resume her former position as president of Chile in March 2014 after a resounding second round victory against her opponent and former childhood playmate, Evelyn Matthei. In an acceptance speech late Sunday night the president-elect touched on two key platforms of her campaign: free higher education and a new constitution.

  • Monday, December 16th 2013 - 01:46 UTC

    Bachelet wins presidential election in Chile

    Presidential candidate and former President Michelle Bachelet gives the thumbs up sign during a victory rally in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013.

    Socialist Michelle Bachelet, who was Chile's president from 2006 to 2010, cruised to victory in Sunday's presidential runoff.

  • Friday, December 13th 2013 - 12:13 UTC

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

    Bachelet or Matthei, but with how much support?

    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.

  • Tuesday, December 3rd 2013 - 17:38 UTC

    Chilean presidential candidates working together against voters' apathy

    In the first round abstention had more support than Bachelet and Matthei together

    Voter turnout in Chile's extreme north and south fell far short of national average, and candidates will look further afield for votes in upcoming elections December 15. As Chile’s presidential candidates turn their heads to the country’s far-flung regions, a report by La Tercera demonstrates the particularly high rates of abstention in rural areas in both the extreme north and south.

  • Tuesday, November 26th 2013 - 20:55 UTC

    Chile turns left again

    Moderate and pragmatic left wing Bachelet is expected to win in the December runoff

    By R Viswanathan (*) The Leftist coalition candidate Michelle Bachelet won 47% of the votes in the presidential elections held on 17 November while her rightist rival Evelyn Matthei got just 25% votes.

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