Elections in Chile 2021: second round live and direct | Boric wins the elections with a record turnout | EL PAÍS America Edition: the global newspaper

The official count offered by the Electoral Service points to a resounding victory for the leftist candidate Gabriel Boric. With 99.66% of the votes counted, the politician who bets on a break with the past prevails against the far-right José Antonio Kast, supporter of the return to the the status quo prior to the 2019 protests, with a wide margin: 55.86% versus 44.14%. The polls closed in Chile at 6:00 p.m. local time after the second round of the elections that will define the name of the new president. Boric started as a favorite, according to the latest polls, in the fight against Kast, winner of the first round by the minimum. Since the November 21 election, both candidates have moderated their speeches in an effort to win the center’s vote, refractory to the polarization that marked much of the campaign.

Boric, political heir to the October 2019 revolts, proposes to strengthen the role of the State in the economy, a tax increase to finance social spending and the end of the private pension system inherited from the dictatorship. Kast is a liberal who promises less state and greater participation of the private sector in the provision of public services. Ultra-conservative in the social sphere, he is a candidate who did not completely break his ideological ties with the Pinochet regime.

The two candidates for La Moneda voted early this Sunday. Boric was convinced of his victory, while Kast bet that it will be a “narrow election” with a margin of difference “below 50,000 votes.” The day is being marked by reports of delays in public transport and a shortage of buses to transport voters, especially in Santiago de Chile. From the left they have come to accuse Sebastián Piñera’s government of a “boycott”, but his team assures that there are the same number of buses in circulation as on any weekday.

More than 8.3 million Chileans participated in the elections, about 55% of those authorized to vote, the highest percentage since voting was voluntary in the South American country, in 2012.

Follow the minute by minute of the election of this Sunday, December 19 by EL PAÍS:

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The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, who at the beginning of the year beat the leftist candidate Andrés Arauz, wished Gabriel Boric “success in his management for the well-being of his people.”

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The Bolivian president, Luis Arce, affirms that “Latin American democracy is strengthened” with the triumph of Gabriel Boric.

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Also the president of Colombia, Iván Duque, in the ideological antipodes of Gabriel Boric, has congratulated the elected president of Chile.

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The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales, a symbol of the so-called 21st century socialism in Latin America, has joined in congratulating Gabriel Boric.

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Alberto Fernández, president of Argentina, received Gabriel Boric’s victory as an opportunity to strengthen ties between the two countries.

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Gabriel Boric’s victory has profound significance throughout the region. Some Latin American presidents celebrate Chile’s result as a milestone that propels the left of the continent. Peruvian Pedro Castilo was one of the first.

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With almost 100%, Gabriel Boric scores a victory with a million votes advantage: 4,605,352 preferences compared to the 3,638,873 registered by José Antonio Kast.

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I recomend you the chronicle of our colleagues Federico Rivas Molina Y Rocio Montes from Santiago de Chile. A balance of the day that marks a political turn of enormous scope for the country with great repercussion throughout the region.

Boric wins the elections in Chile and promotes a new left in Latin America

The 35-year-old progressive candidate gets 55.8% of the vote, compared to 44.1% for the far-right candidate José Antonio Kast

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The margin of victory has been widening until the end. With almost 99% of the ballots counted, Gabriel Boric It touches 56% of the preferences, according to the Electoral Service.

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“We are unity. We are hope. We are more when we are together. We continue!”

Gabriel Boric’s first tweet as president-elect of Chile.

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“I’m going to be everyone’s president”

First statements of Gabriel Boric. “Let our people know that I will do my best to rise to this tremendous challenge, the country brings out the best of itself when we come together and it seems important to me to respect the republican traditions. He has called me Kast and that speaks very well. of Chile ”, said the president-elect of the country during a phone call with the outgoing president, Sebastián Piñera, our colleague tells us Federico Rivas from Santiago. “I will be the president of all Chileans, for those who voted for me and those who did not vote for us.”

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With more than 90% of the votes counted, Gabriel Boric continues to expand its advantage against Jose Antonio Kast with 55.7%.

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Now, with more than 80% of the ballots counted, Gabriel Boric consolidates his victory with 55.5% of the votes, according to the Electoral Service.

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The count continues in Chile and the computation of the data confirms the initial trend. With almost 70% of the votes counted, Gabriel Boric extends its advantage over José Antonio Kast: 55.18% compared to 44.82% Both the far-right candidate and Sebastián Sichel, standard-bearer of the ruling party, have congratulated the winner.

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The celebrations for Boric begin:

Boric supporters honk their car horns in different neighborhoods of Santiago and other cities in the country.

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Also Sebastián Sichel, standard-bearer of the ruling party, congratulates Gabriel Boric. “The greatest challenge will be to make Chile a united country,” he said in light of the deep polarization that has marked the second round of the presidential elections.

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