Chile elections
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Communist and far-right candidates head to Chile’s presidential run-off.Chile’s presidential election will go to a run-off vote in December between a Communist Party and a far-right candidate, after a first round on Sunday produced no outright winner..
The election campaign was dominated by crime and immigration, as the flow of people into the country has recently grown, while candidates pledged to fight foreign gangs like Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua.
The Communist Party’s Jeannette Jara, from the governing coalition, narrowly won the first round, followed closely by far-right rival José Antonio Kast.
The result is expected to give a boost to Kast, as Jara was the only left-wing candidate running against several right-wing candidates, splitting the right-wing vote.
In the 14 December run-off, voters will have to coalesce around one of these two candidates.———————————————————————————-
Similar to Salvador Allende, who obtained 1/3 of the votes. ( Jara 26.5%, Kast 23.5%, Parisi 19.2% ), But this time, it is a smaller percentage. Many workers voted using blank ballots, writing on the ballots: “Both are the same”
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This political campaign has shown that xenophobia and racism aren’t a monopoly of the right-winger., Most workers emigrating to Chile are not gang members; they are workers who have left their countries looking for a job and running away from unemployment, poverty and misery.
The Tren de Aragua practically does not exist in Chile, Venezuela, and other countries, and the ones deported from the USA are not members of the Tren de Aragua either.
The so-called Communist Party of Chile should have called for solidarity with the foreign workers, whom they called.
Illegal immigrants, like the right-wingers that they called fascists in prior elections.
The real gangsters in Chile are the members of the capitalist class that both groups are politically representing, who are economically exploiting the natives and the foreign workers, along with the capitalists from other countries, including the USA, China, Europe, and Latin American capitalists
Who is Jeannette Jara the ‘communist” leading Chile presidential election ?
Who is Jeannette Jara the ‘communist” leading Chile presidential election ?
Villa Alemana, Chile – Cumbia music blasts from the speakers of a makeshift stage at a small, unassuming park in Villa Alemana, part of Chile’s central region.
Hundreds of locals crowd onto the paved park grounds. Pockets of friends dance together, and children race around their parents’ legs.
They have come to hear one of the frontrunners in Chile’s presidential race: Jeannette Jara.
A former labour minister, Jara is the nominee representing the leftist coalition in Sunday’s election.
But it is her membership in the Communist Party that makes her presidential bid historic. Not since Chile’s return to democracy in 1990 has a Communist candidate enjoyed such broad, mainstream support.
For some, Jara’s success is a barometer for the economic malaise fuelling this year’s election cycle. For others, her candidacy is a symptom of the growing polarisation within Chilean politics.
Jara has campaigned on the former, playing up her working-class roots. She has pledged to support Chile’s public healthcare system, build affordable housing and raise wages.
“Considering that politics generates so much mistrust, being able to gather like this, with hard-working people, really fills my heart,” Jara, 51, told the crowd in Villa Alemana, dressed in blue jeans and a loose-fitting blazer rolled up at the sleeves.
“It will be my priority to improve people’s quality of life.”
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