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Chile: Presidential Race Began with 7 Candidates
Little by little the Chilean pre-electoral panorama is being organized with various candidates, where until now only three have a real chance of winning. In the meantime, the Constitutional Convention meets with a behavior that some critics consider exceeding its powers and outside the limits imposed by law. Surveys for the rst time reveal mistrust in their way of operating.
Chile is in the middle of the presidential race, after the centre-left primaries that won the president of the Senate, Yasna Provoste, and that the Electoral Service eliminated two possible candidates, one for falsifying signatures, Diego Ancalao, presidential by the so-called People’s List, a member of the Constitutional Convention, and Gino Lorenzini, owner of a company called ex Felices y Forrados, for failing to comply with the terms of the Antidíscolos Law.
Thus, less than three months before the presidential elections in November, the last Public Square Cadem survey gave the rst place of preferences of the citizens to Gabriel Boric (Frente Amplio, left, conglomerate Apruebo Dignidad) and Sebastian Sichel (Chile Podemos Más, right), who have been leading the ranking for a few weeks.
Answering to the question: “If the presidential elections were next Sunday, which of the following candidates would you vote for?”, 20 percent of those consulted pointed to Boric and the independent candidate.
In third place, the candidate for the Constituent Unit, (centre-centre-
left, former Concertacion) Yasna Provoste obtained 13 percent of mentions. They are followed by Jose Antonio Kast (Republican Party, far right), with 10 percent and Franco Parisi (People’s Party), with seven percent.
Further back was Marco Enriquez-Ominami with three percent and Eduardo Artes with one percent. Twentysix percent of respondents said they do not know, do not respond or would not vote.
Sichel and Boric tie again when asked: “Who do you think the next President of Chile will be”, where they obtain 26 percent; followed by Provoste with 22 percent.
Meanwhile, 51 percent of those consulted stated that “they de nitely would not vote” for Sichel; 52 percent said they would not do it for Boric; 57 percent by Provoste; 69 percent for Paris; 71 percent by Kast, 77 percent by Enriquez-Ominami and 79 percent by Artes. On the other hand, the survey showed that for the rst-time mistrust (50 percent) in the Constitutional Convention exceeded con dence (48 percent).
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