Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Communist emerges as front runner in Chilean presidential race July 1, 2021 10:56 AM CDT By Steve Sweeney Daniel Jadue, the mayor of Recoleta and Communist Party candidate for the presidential elections. | Partido Comunista de Chile Chilean Communist Party candidate Daniel Jadue has emerged as the shock front-runner ahead of November’s presidential elections, with a number of polls predicting he could sweep to power. Pollster Cadem, which has close connections to the right-wing government of President Sebastien Pinera, was the latest to place Mr. Jadue top for popular support on Monday, above Joaquin Lavin, the far-right candidate of the Independent Democratic Union, and the Christian Democratic Party’s Yasna Provote, who has yet to formally declare as a candidate.