Chile: Ultraconservative José Antonio Kast says he has grown and calls people to vote

The ultra-conservative candidate Jose Antonio Kast, second favorite in the presidential elections of Chile of this Sunday, he said that his political strength has grown and that the situation in which he faces these elections is very different from that of the previous ones, in 2017, when he did not reach 8% of the votes.

“It is a very different election where we have been able to grow, we have a national presence, there has been more public exposure for us, we have a great coverage of proxies at the table”, said closet to the press after casting your vote.

The latest polls published in Chile, it has been 15 days since they are prohibited in the two weeks before the polls open, they give closet about 20% of the votes for this day, on a par with and sometimes above the favorite candidate, the leftist Gabriel Boric.

If the forecasts are fulfilled, neither will obtain more than 50% of the votes this Sunday and both would contest the presidency of the country in the second round, which would be held on December 19.

“The main thing is that many people can attend to vote and that each one can speak freely”added closet, who went to vote at an electoral college on the outskirts of Santiago protected from an important security contingent due to previous incidents in that place when he was a table member in other electoral processes.

Regarded as the far-right aspirant, closet he has defended on several occasions the military government of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), he is against homosexual marriage, abortion and he plans to create a ditch in the north of the country to prevent illegal immigration.

He claims not to be “extreme of anything” but a candidate of common sense and during the campaign he was winning over the most conservative followers to the detriment of the candidate of the ruling right, Sebastian Sichel, which nevertheless also has options to go to the second round.

This is due to the unknown that marks the electoral participation, which in the last eleven years has only once exceeded 50% of the electoral roll, and the high number of indecision that the polls have thrown.

The range of candidates is completed by the Christian Democrat Yasna Provoste, the progressive Marco Enríquez-Ominami, the leftist Eduardo Artés and the right-wing economist Franco Parisi.

More than 15 million Chileans are called to the polls on this day in which the Chamber of Deputies and partially the Senate will also be completely renewed.

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