Elections in Chile: Gabriel Boric, left-wing candidate of the Amplio Front, leads in new ballot for second round

Santiago – three weeks from date Chile’s second presidential roleGabriel Borek, left, maintains supremacy over far-right Jose Antonio Caste, Who added the most votes in the first round?. A poll by Criteria Research, released Thursday, showed that Boric has 54% of valid preferences, while Kast has 46%. The survey confirms surveys released over the weekend by Black and White, Pulso Ciudadano and Cadem, which already showed Boric ahead, with an advantage of 3 to 16 percentage points over its rival.

As for pollsters’ expectations about who they think will be the next president, the two candidates appeared to be tied at 40%, according to Benchmark Research. The online survey of 1,620 people took place between 25 and 29 November.

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The results of the first round forced the leftist candidate to seek support in other sectors of the progressive camp to achieve a majority, which pushed the Communist Party, part of his electoral alliance, to occupy a less visible place in this new phase. , Perhaps, in a new government in the end. Borek has enlisted prominent center-left economists to advise on his platform – Andrea Repetto and Eduardo Engel, among others – and has sought support in former sectors of the Concertación, which has ruled Chile for most of the period since the country’s restoration of democracy in 1990.

Internally, Borek has faced tensions since the November 21 elections, particularly with the Communist Party itself. Santiago Mayor Daniel Gado, whom Borek defeated in July’s presidential primary, insulted 12.8% of voters who chose populist Franco Baresi, the US-based candidate who came in third without setting foot in Chile. The Communist leader described them as “enormous individualists”.

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“The only thing they’re looking for is more money in their pockets,” Gadot said of the Parisian electorate, whom Borek needs to win to gain access to the executive branch.

Guillermo Tellier, the leader of the Communists, added fuel to the fire by saying that there was no time to discuss a new government program, and he closed the door to changes indispensable to conquering the moderates. Borek himself denied it.

The photo of Borek in a private meeting with the chairwoman of the Christian Democrats, Carmen Frey, last week, was a prediction of what happened in the national leadership of the traditional assembly, which On Sunday he decided to support him “unconditionally”., although the party intends to remain in the opposition if the deputy wins.

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Borek wrote in a letter to the Christian Democrats, targeting one of the criticisms of the new generation of the left, which has been attacked by sectarianism.

Borek has also attracted ramifications to popular figures, such as Izkia Siches, fellow candidate generation and highly regarded by the population for his performance during the pandemic as president of Colégio dos Médicos.

Now Cast, who advanced in the first round, Received last week Endorsed by the National Renewal Party (RN), the party of President Sebastian Pinera, and Evopoli (Political Evolution), a myth classified as liberal and part of the government. It has also been publicly supported by the Autonomous Democratic Union (UDI), the third acronym for the current Chilean ruling coalition, which it joined before the Republican Party was established in 2019.

The conservative candidate embarked on a 24-hour trip to the United States on Monday, where he was supposed to meet with businessmen and politicians, in an effort to quell his reputation as a radical right-winger abroad, as well as internally relaying signals regarding public order, fiscal responsibility and investment promotion. One of his interlocutors in the United States is Republican Senator Marco Rubio.