Chile elections 2021: right-wing José Antonio Kast maintains leadership according to the latest presidential poll

The right-wing candidate for the presidential elections in Chile, José Antonio Kast, maintains the leadership in the last polls against the center-left candidate Gabriel Boric, but the result of an eventual ballot appears less clear.

The elections will take place on Sunday, November 21, and Chilean electoral law prohibits the publication of surveys on preferences in the previous 15 days. If no candidate achieves an absolute majority, there will be a ballot in December between the two most voted.

The Pulso Ciudadano poll, released on Saturday by the consulting firm Activa Research, pointed out that the ultraconservative lawyer obtained 27.3% of the intention to vote compared to 23.7% for Boric. In third place is the Christian Democratic senator Yasna Provoste with 13.5%.

Last week the study noted that Kast had taken the lead in voting intentions for the first round but was losing the ballot. Saturday’s poll only shows a first round scenario.

The study, with a margin of error of more or less 2%, was carried out on 2,352 online interviews.

The Cadem telephone survey, which analyzed 1,010 cases with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1%, gives 25% of the preferences to Kast and 19% to Boric, a congressman and former student leader.

In the second round, the right-wing candidate – whom his opponents compare with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former US President Donald Trump – achieved 44% of the votes against Boric, with 40% of the preferences.