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Communist Contender Vaults Atop New Chile Presidential Poll Philip Sanders, Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- Communist Party hopeful Daniel Jadue has jumped to the top of the latest opinion poll ahead of Chile’s presidential election in November. About 20% of the people interviewed by Cadem would vote for Jadue, currently the mayor of the Recoleta neighborhood in Santiago, if the election was held this weekend, up from 11% at the end of April. He leaped above right-wing contender Joaquin Lavin, who saw his support rise to 16% from 10%. The presidential race in Chile, which has the highest c...

The “I Approve Dignity” list, made up of the Communist Party of Chile, the Broad Front and other anti-neoliberal parties, won 28 seats. The “Approval” list of center-left, social democratic parties won 25 seats. The “Let’s go for Chile” list, a coalition of right-wing parties, including the ruling alliance, won 37 seats. The results for the 17 seats reserved for Indigenous communities will be announced separately. Regional and municipal elections were also held to elect 16 regional governors, 345 mayors and 2240 municipal councilors for the period 2021–25. Preliminary results ...

Chile’s Constitutional Convention elections: institutional uncertainty and the long shadow of October 2019 Click to read this article in English Source: Rodrigo Garrido / Reuters Two things stood out when Chileans went to the polls for last October’s national plebiscite on the drafting of a new constitution. First, nearly 80 percent voted in favor of commencing the process to eventually draft a new constitution, signifying a fairly broad popular consensus that the path toward fixing the country’s ills would be an institutional one—quite a relief after the experience of the 2019 protes...

COMMENTARY Socialists, a communist, a former guerrilla are presidential front-runners in South America thanks to conservative negligence and folly.

In Chile, the traditional parties collapse 19 May by “New constitution now” Since Sunday night, the Chilean press is piling on the superlatives in its attempt to describe the political earthquake that has shaken the country from the Andes to the Atacama desert to the cold Magallanes region: an electoral shock, the collapse of the traditional parties, a ‘night of the long knives’ for the right, the beginning of the end for Pinochet’s legacy, an enormous defeat for president Sebastián Piñera, a victory for social movements... Chileans voted on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 May ...