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General elections were held in Chile on 21 November 2021, including presidential, parliamentary and regional elections. Voters went to the polls to elect the President of the Republic to serve a four-year term, 27 of 50 members of the Senate to serve an eight-year term in the National Congress, all 155 members of the Chamber of Deputies to serve a four-year term in the National Congress, and all 302 members of the regional boards to serve a three-year term. [a] Following an electoral reform in 2015, the Senate increased its membership from 38 to 43 in 2017 and grew to its full size of 50 seats after this election. [1]
Despite narrowly trailing behind conservative candidate José Antonio Kast in the first round of the presidential election, leftist candidate Gabriel Boric emerged as the winner of the second round with 55.87% of the vote. This margin was larger than what was predicted by pre-election polls. [2] Kast conceded defeat shortly after the polls closed. [3] [4] At the age of 35, Boric became the youngest president ever elected in Chile and also set a record for receiving the highest number of votes in Chilean history. The turnout in the second round increased to 55.7%, which was the highest since voting became voluntary in Chile in 2013.
For the parliamentary election, the center-right coalition Chile Podemos Más kept its position as the largest bloc in both chambers and even increased their number of senators, despite losing more than 10 percentage points from the previous election. In the left wing, the new coalition Apruebo Dignidad had important gains at the expense of the center-left New Social Pact (NPS), becoming the second largest bloc in the Chamber of Deputies. However, NPS kept more seats in the Senate. New parties, such as the far-right Republican Party and the populist Party of the People, also gained several seats. Consequently, the newly elected Congress was split evenly between the combined left and right, [b] with the non-aligned congresspeople holding the balance of power. [6]
On 11 March 2022 all the newly elected authorities, including president-elect Boric, took office. [7]
The 2021 Chilean election cycle was notable for its polarization, representing a departure from the country's political normality. Against the backdrop of the 2019 protests, the writing of a new constitution, and the COVID-19 pandemic, [8] the dominant center-left and center-right coalitions that had ruled the country since the end of the military dictatorship experienced a significant drop in support in the elections for mayors, governors, and members of the Constitutional Convention held on May 15 and 16.
In the subsequent presidential election, candidates from the traditional centrist coalitions finished in fourth and fifth place, while two candidates from newly formed parties and coalitions, Kast and Boric, qualified for the second round. [9] This represented a departure from the country's political history, which had repeatedly seen power bounce between center-right and center-left parties with little structural movement between presidents.
The desire for change among voters led them to reject the traditional political parties and support candidates from new parties. Kast of the far-right Republican Party ran a campaign on populist and Christian conservative values, emphasizing "law and order" and drawing comparisons with former US president Donald Trump and Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. [10] In contrast, Boric, a member of the left-wing Apruebo Dignidad coalition, campaigned on a progressive message reflecting the ideas behind the 2019 protests. He advocated for broadening the social safety net, higher taxes on the wealthy, combating climate change, social justice, and change to the current privatized pension system. Boric also supported the ongoing writing of a new Chilean constitution, while Kast repeatedly said he would interfere to stop its ratification if elected.
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The President is elected using the two-round system; if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, a second round will be held. [11]
The 50 members of the Senate are elected for eight-year terms, with around half of the Senators renewed at each general election. Senators are elected from 16 multi-member constituencies of between two and five seats based on the regions. Seats are filled by party list proportional representation. Each voter votes for one party list or list of a coalition. Seats are allocated by the d'Hondt method.The 2021 elections saw 27 members elected, representing the regions of Antofagasta, Biobío, Coquimbo, O'Higgins, Los Lagos, Los Ríos, Magallanes and Santiago Metropolitan Region. (Vacancies of seats arising between general elections are filled by a person selected by the same party.) [12] [13]
In the National Congress, the 155 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected from 28 multi-member constituencies with between three and eight seats by party list proportional representation. Each voter votes for one party list or list of a coalition. Seats are allocated by the d'Hondt method. (Vacancies of seats arising between general elections are filled by a person selected by the same party.) [14] [13]
Below is the list of candidacies for president accepted by the Electoral Service on 27 August 2021. [15] Boric's and Sichel's candidacies were automatically accepted after they were proclaimed the winner of their respective primaries by the Election Court. [16]
Apruebo Dignidad |
Gabriel Boric (Social Convergence) |
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Deputy for Magallanes (2014–2022) |
The Apruebo Dignidad coalition decided its presidential candidate in the publicly-funded primaries held nationwide on 18 July 2021, won by lawmaker Gabriel Boric with 60% of the vote. [17]
On 17 March 2021, Boric's party, Social Convergence, proclaimed him as its presidential candidate. [18] The Commons Party's leadership also announced on 17 March 2021 that it would propose Boric as its presidential candidate in a meeting of the party's leadership the following Saturday. [19] On 23 March 2021, Democratic Revolution, the coalition's largest party, proclaimed Boric as its presidential candidate. [20] On 29 May 2021, the Common Force movement gave its support to Boric, after he beat Marcelo Díaz in a plebiscite held on May 27–28. [21] On 17 August 2021, the Acción Humanista movement proclaimed him as its candidate. [22]
Chile Podemos Más |
Sebastián Sichel (Independent) |
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Minister of Social Development (2019-2020) |
The Chile Podemos Más center-right coalition (previously Chile Vamos) participated in the publicly-funded primaries held nationwide on 18 July 2021. [31] Former minister Sebastián Sichel beat the other three candidates by 49% of the vote. [32]
Sichel was minister of Social Development and president of BancoEstado during the second administration of President Sebastián Piñera. He participated as an independent candidate in the Chile Podemos Más primary, supported by former PDC supporters and other centrist political movements. [33]
New Social Pact |
Yasna Provoste (Christian Democratic Party) |
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Senator for Atacama (since 2018) President of the Senate (2021) |
Christian Democrat Senator Yasna Provoste won the primary election held by the New Social Pact center-left coalition (formerly Constituent Unity) on August 21, 2021, with over 60% of the vote and a turnout of around 150,000. [45] On May 30, 2021, Provoste had expressed her willingness to compete if her party deemed it necessary. [46] She officially launched her candidacy on July 23, 2021, during a ceremony in her hometown of Vallenar, in northern Chile. On August 17, 2021, the Christian Democratic Party proclaimed her as their candidate. [47]
The other primary candidates, Paula Narváez and Carlos Maldonado, urged the need for a primary to determine a single candidate [48] [49] after the coalition failed to come to an agreement to participate in the national publicly-funded primaries held on July 18, 2021. [50]
Christian Social Front |
José Antonio Kast (Chilean Republican Party) |
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Deputy for La Reina and Peñalolén (2002–2018) |
In May 2021, José Antonio Kast dismissed the idea of holding a presidential primary with Chile Vamos. [65] [66] [67] On August 6, 2021, the Christian Conservative Party, along with the Republican Party and other independents, registered the Christian Social Front pact with the Electoral Service for the parliamentary elections in November. [68] [69] Kast officially registered his candidacy before the Electoral Service on 19 August 2021. [70] [71]
Media outlet and date | Location | Moderators | P Present S Substitute A Absent NI Not invited | ||||||
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Boric | Kast | Provoste | Sichel | Artés | ME-O | Parisi | |||
CNN Chile - Chilevisión 22 September 2021 [93] | Santiago Metropolitan Region | Mónica Rincón Daniel Matamala | P | P | P | P | P | A | A |
La Tercera Confederation of Production and Commerce 24 September 2021 [94] | Santiago Metropolitan Region | María José O'Shea Juan Sutil Servoin | A | P | P | P | A | A | A |
TVN - 24 Horas Canal 13 Mega -Mega Plus 11 October 2021 [95] | Santiago Metropolitan Region | Matías del Río Mónica Pérez Juan Manuel Astorga | P | P | P | P | P | P | A |
Chilean Radio Broadcasters Association (Archi) 15 October 2021 [96] | Santiago Metropolitan Region | Jessika Casteñeda Cony Stipicic | P | P | P | P | P | P | A |
La Red Escenarios Hídricos 2030 | Santiago Metropolitan Region (Candidates remotely) | Julia Vial | P | A | P | P | A | P | P |
University of Chile Debate 2021 (University of Chile, Radio Cooperativa, Radio UChile, UChile TV) | Santiago Metropolitan Region | Ennio Vivaldi Sergio Campos | P | A | P | P | P | P | A |
Debate Es Turno del Planeta (Canal 13, El Desconcierto, Cobertura, CON-CIENCIA, Escazu Ahora Chile, Portada Soñada) | Santiago Metropolitan Region (Candidates remotely) | Felipe Gerdtzen Andrea Obaid | P | A | P | P | P | P | P |
Encuentro Nacional de la Empresa 11 November 2021 [100] | Santiago Metropolitan Region | Soledad Onetto | P | P | P | P | A | P | A |
National Television Association (ANATEL) 15 November 2021 [101] | Santiago Metropolitan Region | Ivan Valenzuela Constanza Santa María Juan Manuel Astorga | P | P | P | P | P | P | A |
After the first round, candidates Sichel and Parisi endorsed Kast. [102]
Boric was endorsed by Enríquez-Ominami and Provoste. [103] Former President Michelle Bachelet returned to Chile from her role as UN Human Rights High Commissioner to formally endorse Boric. [104]
On 9 December, parliamentarians and public figures from over 15 countries signed a statement endorsing Boric. [105]
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On the day of the second round on 19 December, voters at bus stops in rural parts of the country, and large municipalities in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, such as Puente Alto, San Bernardo, and Maipú, waited hours for public bus services in the blazing sun to reach their polling stations, due to a shortage of public bus services available on that day.
Soon after these reports came in, local authorities and citizens in these municipalities took to social media to show Red Metropolitana de Movilidad bus terminals and parking decks full of unused city buses. This led to speculation that the incumbent government was suppressing voters by reducing bus services to prevent them from casting their votes. Apparently, most complaints of delays came from neighborhoods where Gabriel Boric had stronger levels of support.
Leading figures from Boric's campaign, such as Izkia Siches cried foul, accusing the government of trying to help Kast win the election. Boric said "the government has a responsibility" to solve the problem to allow voters to be ferried to vote with the unused buses. The elections authority Servel expressed similar concerns to Transport Minister Gloria Hutt. [129]
The government spokesman Jaime Bellolio called the Boric campaign's claim as a "blatant lie", and denied that the government was suppressing voters, claiming that there were between 5,000 and 6,000 buses running in the Metropolitan Region. However, this was contradicted by transport authorities, which stated that only 3,000 buses were operating. The transport authority however, also stressed that the number of buses was 55 percent more than a usual Sunday and between 3 percent or 4 percent greater than on the first round of election in November. [130]
A Transantiago bus driver claimed that only 40 percent of the bus drivers available were driving that day, despite statements from the government that they were operating buses on a normal work schedule. As a result, carpools were organized through social media, while private services like Uber and Cabify offered ride discounts for voters to travel to polling stations. [131]
In the evening, just before polls closed, Transport Minister Gloria Hutt apologized, acknowledging the government was slow to react to the situation and blamed the delays on road work and traffic, but denied that the government was engaging in voter suppression. [131]
Turnout for the second round rose by 1.2 million from the first round, and from 47.3% in the first round to 55.6%, the highest level for any Chilean election since voting ceased to be compulsory in 2012. [132]
Gabriel Boric won the election with 55.9% of the vote and is set to become the youngest president in Chile's history and youngest state leader in the world. [133] [134]
A post-election survey showed that despite their endorsement of Kast, 59% of Parisi's voters and 23% of Sichel's voters voted for Boric, while 82% of Yasna Provoste's supporters, 83% of Marco Enríquez-Ominami's supporters, and 92% of Eduardo Artés's supporters voted for Boric. [135]
Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
Gabriel Boric | Apruebo Dignidad (CS) | 1,815,024 | 25.82 | 4,620,890 | 55.87 | |
José Antonio Kast | Christian Social Front (PLR) | 1,961,779 | 27.91 | 3,650,088 | 44.13 | |
Franco Parisi | Party of the People | 900,064 | 12.81 | |||
Sebastián Sichel | Chile Podemos Más | 898,635 | 12.79 | |||
Yasna Provoste | New Social Pact (PDC) | 815,563 | 11.60 | |||
Marco Enríquez-Ominami | Progressive Party | 534,383 | 7.60 | |||
Eduardo Artés | Patriotic Union (PC-AP) | 102,897 | 1.46 | |||
Total | 7,028,345 | 100.00 | 8,270,978 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 7,028,345 | 98.79 | 8,270,978 | 98.89 | ||
Invalid votes | 55,480 | 0.78 | 68,802 | 0.82 | ||
Blank votes | 30,493 | 0.43 | 24,130 | 0.29 | ||
Total votes | 7,114,318 | 100.00 | 8,363,910 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 15,030,974 | 47.33 | 15,030,974 | 55.64 | ||
Source: Election Certification Court (final first round results), Servel (final second round results) |
Distribution by party (left) and coalitions (right) | |||||||
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Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |||
Chile Podemos Más | National Renewal | 693,474 | 10.96 | 25 | –11 | ||
Independent Democratic Union | 671,502 | 10.61 | 23 | –7 | |||
Evópoli | 221,284 | 3.50 | 4 | –2 | |||
Democratic Independent Regionalist Party | 23,222 | 0.37 | 1 | +1 | |||
Total | 1,609,482 | 25.43 | 53 | –19 | |||
Apruebo Dignidad | Comunes | 207,607 | 3.28 | 6 | +5 | ||
Communist Party | 464,885 | 7.35 | 12 | +4 | |||
Social Convergence | 287,190 | 4.54 | 9 | New | |||
Democratic Revolution | 257,854 | 4.07 | 8 | –2 | |||
Social Green Regionalist Federation | 107,696 | 1.70 | 2 | –2 | |||
Total | 1,325,232 | 20.94 | 37 | +14 | |||
New Social Pact | Socialist Party | 343,437 | 5.43 | 13 | –6 | ||
Christian Democratic Party | 264,985 | 4.19 | 8 | –6 | |||
Party for Democracy | 242,927 | 3.84 | 7 | –1 | |||
Radical Party | 111,117 | 1.76 | 4 | –4 | |||
Liberal Party | 96,010 | 1.52 | 4 | +2 | |||
Citizens | 27,502 | 0.43 | 1 | +1 | |||
Total | 1,085,978 | 17.16 | 37 | –14 | |||
Christian Social Front | Republican Party | 666,726 | 10.54 | 14 | New | ||
Christian Conservative Party | 40,560 | 0.64 | 1 | New | |||
Total | 707,286 | 11.18 | 15 | New | |||
Party of the People | 534,881 | 8.45 | 6 | New | |||
Dignidad Ahora | Humanist Party | 195,409 | 3.09 | 3 | –2 | ||
Equality Party | 127,506 | 2.01 | 0 | –1 | |||
Total | 322,915 | 5.10 | 3 | –3 | |||
Green Ecologist Party | 305,443 | 4.83 | 2 | +1 | |||
United Independents | United Centre | 177,105 | 2.80 | 1 | New | ||
National Citizen Party | 10,291 | 0.16 | 0 | New | |||
Total | 187,396 | 2.96 | 1 | New | |||
Patriotic Union | 56,506 | 0.89 | 0 | 0 | |||
Revolutionary Workers Party | 51,075 | 0.81 | 0 | 0 | |||
Progressive Party | 46,422 | 0.73 | 0 | –1 | |||
New Time | 4,420 | 0.07 | 0 | New | |||
Independents | 90,960 | 1.44 | 1 | 0 | |||
Total | 6,327,996 | 100.00 | 155 | 0 | |||
Valid votes | 6,327,996 | 89.48 | |||||
Invalid votes | 339,470 | 4.80 | |||||
Blank votes | 404,762 | 5.72 | |||||
Total votes | 7,072,228 | 100.00 | |||||
Registered voters/turnout | 15,030,963 | 47.05 | |||||
Source: Servicio Electoral de Chile. (99.98%) |
Seat distribution by party (left) and coalitions (right) | ||||||||||
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Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | |||||||
Won | Not up | Total | ||||||||
Chile Podemos Más | National Renewal | 549,553 | 11.80 | 5 | 6 | 12 | ||||
Evópoli | 368,024 | 7.90 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||||
Independent Democratic Union | 354,812 | 7.62 | 5 | 4 | 9 | |||||
Democratic Independent Regionalist Party | 25,297 | 0.54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Total | 1,297,686 | 27.86 | 12 | 12 | 24 | |||||
Apruebo Dignidad | Communist Party | 335,709 | 7.21 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||
Social Green Regionalist Federation | 188,308 | 4.04 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||
Comunes | 172,054 | 3.69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Democratic Revolution | 156,256 | 3.35 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Social Convergence | 59,489 | 1.28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Total | 911,716 | 19.57 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||||
New Social Pact | Socialist Party | 314,114 | 6.74 | 4 | 3 | 7 | ||||
Christian Democratic Party | 214,180 | 4.60 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||||
Party for Democracy | 111,910 | 2.40 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||||
Radical Party | 58,077 | 1.25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Liberal Party | 28,082 | 0.60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Total | 726,363 | 15.59 | 8 | 10 | 18 | |||||
Christian Social Front | Republican Party | 336,305 | 7.22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Christian Conservative Party | 65,262 | 1.40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Total | 401,567 | 8.62 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||
Party of the People | 378,378 | 8.12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Green Ecologist Party | 198,710 | 4.27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
United Independents | United Centre | 158,134 | 3.39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
National Citizen Party | 7,174 | 0.15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Total | 165,308 | 3.55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Dignidad Ahora | Equality Party | 82,785 | 1.78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Humanist Party | 15,916 | 0.34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Total | 98,701 | 2.12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Patriotic Union | 41,155 | 0.88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Revolutionary Workers Party | 4,802 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Independents | 433,448 | 9.31 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||
Total | 4,657,934 | 100.00 | 27 | 23 | 50 | |||||
Valid votes | 4,657,934 | 90.99 | ||||||||
Invalid votes | 227,995 | 4.45 | ||||||||
Blank votes | 233,086 | 4.55 | ||||||||
Total votes | 5,119,015 | 100.00 | ||||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 15,030,963 | 34.06 | ||||||||
Source: Servicio Electoral de Chile |
Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | |||
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Chile Vamos | RN and independents | 702,607 | 11.45 | 53 | ||
Chile Vamos | UDI and independents | 680,283 | 11.09 | 43 | ||
Constituent Unity | PS and independents | 358,207 | 5.84 | 23 | ||
PPD and independents | 234,242 | 3.82 | 19 | |||
Total | 592,449 | 9.66 | 42 | |||
Broad Front | CS and independents | 217,259 | 3.54 | 10 | ||
RD and independents | 250,324 | 4.08 | 12 | |||
PLC and independents | 9,414 | 0.15 | 0 | |||
Comunes and independents | 95,144 | 1.55 | 3 | |||
Total | 572,141 | 9.33 | 25 | |||
For a Dignified Chile | PCCh and independents | 448,137 | 7.30 | 21 | ||
Equality for Chile | 102,293 | 1.67 | 3 | |||
Total | 550,430 | 8.97 | 24 | |||
Citizen Democracy | PDC and independents | 489,894 | 7.99 | 36 | ||
Citizens and independents | 30,077 | 0.49 | 0 | |||
Total | 519,971 | 8.48 | 36 | |||
Party of the People | 474,132 | 7.73 | 22 | |||
Republicans and independents | 470,514 | 7.67 | 15 | |||
Ecologists and independents | 315,682 | 5.15 | 6 | |||
Chile Vamos | Evópoli and independents | 274,072 | 4.47 | 11 | ||
Progressive Radical Change | PR and independents | 173,882 | 2.83 | 11 | ||
PRO and independents | 80,700 | 1.32 | 1 | |||
Total | 254,582 | 4.15 | 12 | |||
Green Regionalists and independents | 232,144 | 3.78 | 7 | |||
Let's Humanize Chile | 106,790 | 1.74 | 0 | |||
Chile Vamos | PRI and independents | 144,028 | 2.35 | 3 | ||
United Independents | 79,251 | 1.29 | 0 | |||
Patriotic Union | 41,344 | 0.67 | 0 | |||
Working Class Unity Front | 36,706 | 0.60 | 0 | |||
Christian Conservative Party and independents | 21,338 | 0.35 | 0 | |||
New Time | 1,160 | 0.02 | 0 | |||
Independents | 65,510 | 1.07 | 3 | |||
Total | 6,135,134 | 100.00 | 302 | |||
Valid votes | 6,135,134 | 86.88 | ||||
Invalid votes | 381,731 | 5.41 | ||||
Blank votes | 544,849 | 7.72 | ||||
Total votes | 7,061,714 | 100.00 | ||||
Source: Servicio Electoral de Chile |
On 19 December 2021, shortly after the preliminary results of the second round were publicized, Kast conceded defeat and congratulated Boric through a tweet saying "I have just talked to Gabriel Boric and have congratulated him for his big triumph. From now on he is the president-elect of Chile and deserves all of our respect and constructive collaboration. Chile is always first". [136] Later that day, Kast visited Boric at the latter's campaign headquarters in central Santiago. [137] Boric thanked Kast during his victory speech, saying "we must build bridges for our compatriots to live better, because that is the people of Chile's demand". [138]
Outgoing president Sebastián Piñera had a video call with president-elect Boric, which was broadcast live on TV and radio, complying with one of the country's electoral traditions since the transition to democracy. [139] During their conversation, Piñera congratulated Boric and said "when we divide [our country] in wars between ourselves, things always go wrong. We all hope you make a very good government for Chile and the Chileans and I am sure you will do your best". Boric said "I am going to be the President of all Chileans, because I believe it is important to interpret everyone and agreements should be between all of the people and not inside four walls". [140]
Boric was also congratulated by President of the Constitutional Convention, Elisa Loncón. [141] [142] The leader of Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco, Héctor Llaitul, dismissed Boric as being together with Kast "two faces of the same coin" and warned that Boric will maintain "the colonial-format capitalist system". Llaitul pledged to continue "the path of revolutionary autonomism". [143]
Among international leaders who congratulated Boric are President of Argentina Alberto Fernández, [144] Vice President Cristina Kirchner, [144] President of Bolivia Luis Arce, [145] [146] President of the Chamber of Senators of Bolivia Andrónico Rodríguez, [147] former President of Brazil Lula da Silva, [148] President of Colombia Iván Duque, [149] President of Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado, [150] President of Ecuador Guillermo Lasso, [151] Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez, [152] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, [153] Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France Jean-Yves Le Drian, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, [154] President of Peru Pedro Castillo, [155] President of Uruguay Luis Lacalle Pou, [156] President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, [157] and opposition leaders of Venezuela Juan Guaidó and Henrique Capriles. [158] The European Union, via its High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, also congratulated Boric on his victory in the second round and pointed to "strengthening" relations with the Chilean government. [159]
President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro had a late and cold reaction to Boric's election. He pointed out that "half of the population abstained" in the election, and referred to Boric as "that Boric". [160] [c] Boric responded to Bolsonaro's comments by stating that "clearly we are very different". [161] Bolsonaro's son Eduardo, who had supported Kast, had a harsher reaction, stating that Chile was set on a path similar to Maduro's Venezuela with Boric. He mentioned the –8% drop that occurred in the Santiago Stock Exchange following the election and linked Boric to the violence that erupted in Chile in 2019. [160]
President of the United States Joe Biden had a phone conversation with president-elect Boric on 30 December, [162] on which Biden congratulated Boric for his victory. In a press statement published by the White House, [163] Biden "applauded Chile's free and fair elections as a powerful example to the region and the world", and also underscored the cooperation between Chile and the U.S. to "promote a green and equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and to address the existential threat posed by climate change". Biden also sent through the president-elect his condolences for the death of 14-year old Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who was killed in a police shootout at Los Angeles, California on 23 December. Boric later posted on his Twitter account about the conversation he had with President Biden, stating that "In addition to the shared joy for our respective electoral victories, we talked about common challenges such as fair trade, climate crisis and strengthening democracy. We will continue to talk." [164]
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Franco Aldo Parisi Fernández is a Chilean business engineer and economist. He received recognition for doing radio and television programs about economy along with his brother Antonino Parisi, and has been nicknamed "the economist of the people". In 2012 he launched his independent candidacy for president for the 2013 elections in Chile. Parisi ideologically identifies himself as a social liberal. In November 2021 he reached the third place of votes in the first round of the presidential elections, behind José Antonio Kast and Gabriel Boric.
The Nueva Mayoría, also translated in English as New Majority, was a Chilean centre-left electoral coalition from 2013 to 2018, composed mainly of centre-left political parties supporting the presidential candidacy of Michelle Bachelet in the 2013 election.
General elections were held in Chile on 19 November 2017 to elect the president, all 155 members of the Chamber of Deputies, 23 of the 43 members of the Senate and 278 members of regional boards. All elected members would serve a four-year term, aside from the senators would serve for eight years.
Gabriel Boric Font is a Chilean politician who has been President of Chile since 2022. He previously served two four-year terms as a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies.
Political Evolution, also known in Spanish by its shorthand Evópoli, is a Chilean centre-right political party, founded in 2012. The party defines itself as a liberal platform for the people who look for a "modern centre-right who proposes as the central axis of their proposal the appreciation of diversity, the emphasis on encouraging local communities and the pursuit of social justice".
The Broad Front was a Chilean political coalition founded in early 2017, composed of left-wing parties and movements. Its first electoral contest was the 2017 Chilean general election, where their presidential candidate Beatriz Sánchez came third with 20% of the vote in the first round of election. The Broad Front also expanded their electoral representation to 20 deputies, 1 senator and 21 out of 278 Regional Councillors, thus consolidating the movement as the 'third force' in Chilean politics.
The Chilean presidential primaries of 2017 were held in Chile on Sunday 2 July 2017. It was the first election in the country's history in which Chileans were permitted to vote from abroad.
José Antonio Kast Rist, also known by his initials JAK, is a Chilean lawyer and politician. He is running for President in the 2025 Chilean general election, for the third time.
The Republican Party is a right-wing populist and conservative political party in Chile. Its founder and former leader is Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast.
Sebastián Iglesias Sichel Ramírez is a Chilean lawyer, professor, mayor elect of Ñuñoa, ex minister of State and politician who served as president of the Banco del Estado de Chile from June 2020 until December 2020. He also previously served as Minister of Social Development and Family and executive vice president of Corfo under the second government of Sebastián Piñera. He was an independent candidate in the 2021 Chilean presidential election who ran under the centre-right Chile Podemos Más coalition.
The Social Convergence was a left-wing political party in Chile. Founded by current Chilean president Gabriel Boric, it is now led by Diego Ibáñez.
Óscar Daniel Jadue Jadue is a Chilean architect, sociologist and Marxist politician. A member of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh), Jadue served as Mayor of Recoleta since 2012 until his dismisal in July 22, 2024.
Izkia Jasvin Siches Pastén is a Chilean physician and politician, who served in 2022 as Minister of Interior and Public Security for President Gabriel Boric. She was the first woman to hold that position, the second most important in government after the President.
Apruebo Dignidad was a democratic socialist Chilean electoral coalition officially created on 11 January 2021, by the Broad Front and Chile Digno in preparation for the Constitutional Convention election.
New Social Pact was a Chilean centre to centre-left political coalition established on 23 August 2021 in order to participate in the presidential and parliamentary elections of that year. This pact is made up of the parties for Democracy (PPD), Radical (PR), Socialist (PS), Christian Democratic (PDC), Citizens (CIU), Liberal (PL) and the platforms New Deal and New Chile.
The Christian Social Front was a Chilean far-right electoral coalition formally created on August 6, 2021, between the Republican Party and the Christian Conservative Party for the 2021 general elections.
Humanist Action is a Chilean left-wing political party, founded in 2020 by former militants of the Humanist Party. Its leader is Tomás Hirsch, who was a presidential candidate in 1999 and 2005.
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