Chile Elections 2021: Who leads the latest Citizen Pulse poll published this Sunday?

The far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast He became the favorite to win the Chilean presidential elections on November 21 by obtaining 22.2% support, surpassing the leader of the polls, the leftist deputy Gabriel Boric (17.4%), the Pulso Ciudadano poll indicated this Sunday.

22.2% of those consulted said that if the elections were this Sunday they would vote for the candidate of Republican Party Jose Antonio Kast, a 55-year-old lawyer who has demonstrated in favor of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) and who is a supporter of the policies of the ultra-nationalist Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro.

For the first time, this 55-year-old lawyer leads the poll Citizen Pulse, after rising nearly 6 points from the poll two weeks ago. closet also led the survey of the market researcher fall from last week with 23%.

A) Yes, closet surpasses the young candidate (35) of the leftist coalition I Approve Dignity, Gabriel Boric, who scored the preferences and fell 3.9 points. In third place is the Christian Democratic senator Yasna Provoste (9.5%).

In the fourth place appears surprisingly the candidate of the Party for People, Franco Parisi (7.3%) who displaced the president of the ruling center-right Sebastián Sichel (6.9%), whose candidacy fell from second place at the beginning of October to a fifth place Sunday after several controversies that have favored Kast.

Sichel, a former Minister of Social Development in the government of Sebastián Piñera, has lost the support of at least five center-right parliamentarians in recent days who openly announced their support for Kast.

It has also played against him to admit that he made the withdrawal of 10% of the pension funds, a measure that he had rejected due to the damages that it entails for the retirement system and the country’s economy.

He was also affected by the scandal involving President Piñera after a company owned by his sons sold the Dominga mining company to businessman Carlos Alberto Delano – a close friend of the president – in allegedly irregular conditions. Congress is studying an accusation to dismiss Piñera presented by the opposition groups.

Seven presidential candidates will participate in the November 21 elections, to which 15 million Chileans are summoned. The Congress and the 16 regional councils will also be renewed.

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