Who will relieve Piñera in the Presidency of Chile?
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The far-right candidate José Kast and the former left-wing student leader Gabriel Boric will meet in a ballot after obtaining the first two majorities in Sunday's elections.
With 65.52% of the polling stations scrutinized almost three hours after the polling stations began to close, Kast obtained 28.42% of the votes, for Boric's 24.90%, according to data provided by the Service Electoral.
Third, there was the liberal economist Franco Parisi, a candidate who did not set foot in Chile during the entire campaign and who became known for giving media economic advice.
With 13.38% of the votes, its voters will be key in the second round on December 19.
Gone are the downtown options.
With Sunday's results, the Chileans at least temporarily buried the two political parties that ruled their destinies since the return of democracy in 1990: the center-left legacy of the Concertación represented by Yasna Provoste and the current right-wing ruling party led by Sebastián Sichel.
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The first candidate to acknowledge his defeat at the beginning of the night, Sichel told the press that he telephoned Kast to congratulate him on his move to the second round, but did not immediately pledge his support, pointing out that he had "programmatic" differences with the far-right candidate. .
For its part, Provoste indicated that it wants to listen to Boric and his proposals for the second round, but made it clear that, as leader of the center-left, "our will can never be neutral, not allow the advance of fascism represented by José Antonio Kast ".
Election day was marked by a massive call and long lines of voters waiting for their turn amid the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The presidential elections culminate a convulsive two-year period in which Chile experienced a social outbreak, began to draft a new Constitution and dealt with the covid-19 pandemic.
Who is José Kast?
Kast was born in 1966 and is a lawyer.
He belongs to a family linked to politics and was a deputy for the Metropolitan Region between 2002 and 2018 and previously a councilor of Buin, according to the bibliographic review of the National Congress of Chile.
He had already participated in the 2017 presidential elections, when he obtained 7.93% of the votes.
He is a supporter of Pinochet and one of the founders of the Republican Party of Chile, a new far-right political force, and previously was a member of the Independent Democratic Union, an opponent of the Concertation of Parties for Democracy that ruled Chile after the end of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Among some of his proposals is to build a ditch on the border to prevent the arrival of migrants and withdraw Chile from the UN, in addition to describing himself against adoption by same-sex couples and the right to abortion.
Who is Gabriel Boric?
Born in 1986, he is also a lawyer and has been a deputy for the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region since 2014, according to his own bibliographic review.
He was president of the Federation of Students of the University of Chile (FECH), succeeding Camila Vallejos, and led the 2011 student protests calling for greater access to education.
Boric also participated in the signing of the "Agreement for Social Peace and the New Constitution", in the context of the "social outbreak" of 2019.
He belongs to Convergencia Social, a left-wing political party linked to the Broad Front, and after the primary elections, in July 2021, he became the candidate of the Pacto Approve Dignity coalition.
With information from Reuters, Germán Padinger and Cristopher Ulloa.