Chilean assets tumbled after left-wing candidate Gabriel Boric won a sweeping victory in Sunday’s presidential election, giving him the mandate to push ahead with reform of Latin America’s more open economy. The peso, foreign bonds and the main stock index registered their biggest drop in months. The currency weakened as much as 3% early Monday, […]
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Economic and political turbulence on the horizon of the leftist Boric in Chile
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sebastián Piñera asks that the new president of Chile be “the president of all”
The outgoing president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, asked this Sunday that the new president be “the president of all” during the polarized ballot in which the former left-wing student leader Gabriel Boric and the ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast compete. “Tonight we are going to have a new president elected by all of you and I […]
Voting centers open in Chile for crucial ballot between Boric and Kast
More 2,500 voting centers opened this Sunday in Chile to start the second round of the presidential election in which former left-wing student leader Gabriel Boric and ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast compete to replace conservative Sebastián Piñera. More than 15 million people are called to vote in this election, the most polarized and decisive for […]