Until three weeks before the first round of the presidential election in Chile, held on Sunday 16 November, the results of the polls were clear: the results of the poll showed that communist candidate Jeannette Jara, candidate of the United Left Party, and José Antonio Kast, deputy of the Republican Party, ranked on the far right, advanced to the second round. The traditional right-wing candidate, Evelyn Matthei, was then relegated to third place – unlike the left, the right did not hold primaries for this election and appeared divided.
But the dynamics of the campaign have changed things. The fourth in the running, Johannes Kaiser, also from the extreme right, defines himself as “reactionary”The libertarian and self-proclaimed ultra-liberal president of Argentina, Javier Milei, has made spectacular progress in recent weeks. Limited to 8% of voting intent in September, it nearly doubled its score to reach 15% in 1uh November, thus overtaking Evelyn Matthei in the polls.
Supporting a minimalist state, freedom of arms and the death penalty, opposing the legalization of abortion or homosexual marriage, Johannes Kaiser made José Antonio Kast appear as a moderate, while Kast was careful not to discuss, during this campaign, the subject of individual freedom, which remained at the center of his attention during his previous candidacy, in 2017 and 2021.
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