With no majority in Congress to carry out his projects, with economic problems on the horizon and the task of healing a society that emerges battered from a polarized campaign, Chile’s newly elected president, the leftist Gabriel Boric, faces an uphill road. Experts say that one of the first tasks of Boric, whom his detractors […]
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Chilean stock market and currency fall after presidential victory of leftist Boric
Updated 12/20/2021 08:14 am The Chilean peso and the stock market fell on Monday after the landslide victory of leftist Gabriel Boric in the presidential elections. The elections were the most polarized of the world’s largest copper producer in three decades, since the fall of the military dictatorship, but finally the legislator won with 55.85% […]
Leftist Boric became president-elect of Chile
“I am going to bet firmly to meet again as a country, to achieve the agreements we need to advance in a more just way,” said Gabriel Boric at the end of the last debate on television before the presidential ballot on Sunday in which he became the new President of Chile. In a rhetoric […]
Leftist Boric leads presidential election in Chile after initial vote count
The leftist candidate Gabriel Boric led the presidential election in Chile on Sunday with the first polling stations scrutinized, according to figures released by the electoral authority an hour after the polling stations began to close. With 13.19% of the polls scrutinized, Boric had 53.39% of the votes compared to 46.61% of the ultra-conservative José […]
Chile begins counting votes amid criticism for lack of transportation
The vote count for the crucial ballot in Chile began this Sunday after the closure of more than 2,500 voting centers and amid a barrage of criticism against the Government for not having enabled a more efficient public transport service. The first preliminary data will be predictably from 7:00 p.m. local time (22:00 GMT) and […]
Chileans elect president between extremes: Kast or Boric?
Driven by fears to extremes, Chileans went to the polls on Sunday to elect their new president from among the leftist Gabriel Boric and the far right Jose Antonio Kast, in the second round of the closest and most polarized election in many years. Whichever winner is, it will put a new twist on a […]
Criticism for lack of public transport and traffic jams to go to vote in Chile
Overflowing urban bus stops in different parts of the country and kilometric traffic jams in Santiago mark the electoral day in Chile, which this Sunday elects the successor of Sebastián Piñera between the left-wing deputy Gabriel Boric and the lawyer José Antonio Kast. In the peripheral towns of Puente Alto, Maipú, La Florida or San […]
Kast and Boric, protagonists of the most polarized and closed election of Chile in recent years
Chile elects president in an unprecedented second round due to the confrontation of two totally opposite options, on the one hand, the extreme right Jose Antonio Kast and on the other the leftist Gabriel Boric. More than 15 million Chileans are called to vote very early for the replacement of the president Sebastian Piñera, who […]
Boric hopes to be “the president of all Chileans”
The deputy and former student leader of the left Gabriel Boric, which faces in the elections of this Sunday by the Presidency of Chile to the ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast, he affirmed that he hopes to be “the president of all Chileans” if he wins at the polls. “The sense of historical responsibility is tremendous, […]
Elections in Chile: Kast will go to court if the result is narrow
The candidate José Antonio Kast said that if the result of the elections is very narrow, with a difference between the two candidates of less than 50,000 votes, the presidential elections could be “resolved in the electoral tribunals.” “It is a narrow election, we have to wait for the result. One result is the one […]