Boric vs Kast: Look at the result of the first poll after Sunday’s elections in Chile

The far right Jose Antonio Kast on one side, the leftist Gabriel Boric on the other: opposing poles that will face each other in the second presidential round in a Chile marked by two years of social protests that shook one of the most stable countries in Latin America.

The Chilean market reacted with relief to the electoral result that stock market analysts interpreted as even, without political force it was empowered by the votes. Facing the ballot, both will have to moderate their speeches to attract the center.

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Thus, the Chilean peso opened with a strong rise of 3.5%, to trade at 800 units per dollar at the start of operations. The Santiago Stock Exchange soared at the opening with a rise of 9.25%.

⭕ #Public plaza #Presidential Election Second round starts in statistical tie:@joseantoniokast 39%, @gabrielboric 39%. 22% do not know or do not respond. pic.twitter.com/y6YFELH8rz

– Cadem_cl (@Cadem_cl) November 22, 2021

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“We will look for a country that pulls up with unity and without polarization”, Deputy Giorgio Jackson, one of Boric’s closest advisers, told Cooperativa radio on Monday.

Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast, from the Republican Party, addresses supporters in front of the headquarters in Santiago on November 21, 2021. (ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP).

However, experts estimate that the election on December 19 “is going to be an in-depth version of the rhetoric of fear. It will be a choice of one fear against the other ”, the political analyst of the University of Santiago, Marcelo Mella, told AFP.

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“The fear of a left-wing Boric candidacy that will not be able to respond to the problems facing the country today or the fear of an ultra-conservative leadership with Kast that will severely damage the basis of pluralism that a democracy should have”added Mella.

closetA 55-year-old lawyer and Republican Party candidate, he won first place with almost 28% of the vote with a speech of “peace, order, progress and freedom.”

Boric, deputy, 35-year-old former student leader and candidate of the alliance Approve Dignity -Frente Amplio and Partido Comunista-, got second place with just over 25% of the preferences when identifying with the social protest of October 2019 against the social inequality and seeking a new country model.

Chilean presidential candidate Gabriel Boric, from the Approve Dignity party, greets his supporters in Providencia, Santiago, on November 21, 2021. (MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP).

Two antagonistic versions that face each other in a Chile marked by an “expression of political schizophrenia” that, for Mella, is reflected in the two winning candidates in the elections where, despite the long lines that were observed, a low turnout was once again recorded, of 46.8%.

Two views of the same Chile

Kast y Boric they celebrated their passage to the ballot almost at the same time surrounded by supporters and with speeches that point to two opposite realities for the future of Chile when the term of Sebastián Piñera ends, in March 2022.

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closet He appealed to restore “tranquility” to Chile after it plunged into violence and crime in the framework of the protests that began on October 18, 2019, massive and several with riots that left 34 dead and thousands injured.

Accused Boric and his allies from the Communist Party, as the cause of “instability” with his presidential project.

But Boric decided to deliver a measured message without underestimating or caricaturing his adversary. The young leftist pointed out that his project is “transformative, serious and responsible” and that it “ensures the best quality of life for all” Chileans.

“We do not go out to the streets so that everything remains the same,” he said.

Gain support towards the center

If the two candidates agree on something, it is that they need to win support from the traditional center politics, whose parties and leaders were buried on Sunday by voters who also elected deputies, senators and regional councilors.

“Kast is not going to be the hyperconservative nor Boric the hyperrevolutionary. They will have to get more votes and that will be achieved in intermediate forces ”, former presidential adviser Ernesto Ottone told AFP.

“The fact that the center-left and the center-right are not in the second round is a bit cheating, because the right voted for Kast, obviously, even though it was betrothed to Sichel. And from the point of view of the center-left, there was already a fall in that sector and a certain reverie of a sector of the center-left with Boric “Ottone stated.

The ruling party Sebastián Sichel, endorsed by the Piñera government, came in fourth place with 12% of the votes and Senator of the Christian Democracy Yasna Provoste was fifth with 11%.

File photo dated Nov. 14, 2013, showing presidential candidate Franco Parisi addressing supporters during a visit to the city of Chillan. (EFE / Mario Ruiz).

The key is Parisi

The liberal candidate Franco Parisi surprised with a third place thanks to 13% of the voters, despite residing in the United States and having campaigned only through the internet without setting foot in Chile or voting.

“They are going to be the votes that will have to be disputed in the second round,” the academic from the Diego Portales University, Rodrigo Espinoza, told AFP.

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