Sebastían Piñera and Guillier to the second Electoral Round
2017-11-22 10:18:17 / web@radiorebelde.icrt.cu / Translated by: JC Caballero
The former head of state, Sebastián Piñera, and the government representative, Alejandro Guillier, will be voting again on December 17 th after any of them obtained a majority of votes in the elections carried out on Sunday.
According to the data from the local electoral system. Sebastian Piñera is the leader of the new center-right Chile Vamos political coalition and Alejandro Guillier who is the representative of the center-left wing Nueva Mayoría party, are leading the list of eight candidates who presented the elections.
Sebastian Piñera, who ruled Chile from 2010 to 2014 and the related surveys showed him as a very likely winner, obtained the 36.64% of the votes while Alejandro Guillier reached the 22.70% of them.
Sanchez and Piñera were also the main winners of the vote overseas which is a modality that is applied for the first time.
According to the BBC network channel, the number of votes obtained by the Frente Amplio party are among the most significant occurrences of that vote process because it is different to the “logical” two-party trend which ruled the elections in Chile since the end of the dictator Augusto Pinochet.
There was a 46% of the population available to vote who attended to the polls, according to the vote-count process and that is to say that less than half of the local electoral role.
It is also important that the vote obtained by the three candidates of the progressive sector named Beatriz Sánchez, Frente Amplio party and Carolina Goic of the Christian Democrat and the progressive Marco Enríquez Ominami.
Regarding the related results, the president Michelle Bachelet called the Chileans to the unity and continuing reinforcing the progressive ideas which has helped to strengthen the nation´s social achievements.
The surprise
The great surprise of the day was the candidate of the Frente Amplio political party, Beatriz Sánchez, who was third with the 20.27% and her followers, who were mostly young people, might decide who could be the new president of Chile.
Beatriz Sánchez represents a political left-wing coalition which is backed by former student leaders since 2017.
The renewal of the Chamber of Deputies and part of the Senate
The entrance of the new Frente Amplio party in the U.S. Congress utterly modified the Chilean political forces. That party would be celebrating the achievement of the first seat in the Senate and its 20 deputies. It was formed as a political coalition of small parties in March of the current year, therefore, this would be its first participation in the elections and is led by the former leaders of the student demonstrations carried out in 2011.
The Democracia Cristiana government´s party had not many votes and the Chile Vamos party increased the number of legislative in both chambers in spite it did not get the absolute majority.
Even though it is true that the Chile Vamos right-wing party was presided over by Sebastián Piñera, it achieved a higher number of representatives for the Congress and it did not reach the absolute majority in any of the two chambers.
The Chile Vamos party achieved 19 out of 43 and 72 out of 155 lawmakers through those results.
The Por todo Chile right-wing party would need to be added a senator and a deputy for that sector, and according to the partial results of the local electoral service, the other half of the Chilean Congress would be assigned to the different left-wing sectors.
The most voted candidate
“Chile wants a change and more than a million and two hundred people voted for that change.” Those were the words pronounced by the most voted and third candidate for the presidential elections of Chile, Beatriz Sánchez.
Beatriz Sánchez highlighted that the people´s commitment who carried out their right to vote against all political current and against all the ideas which were being said to them to vote.”
“We are going to continue working for all of you as you trusted us. We are going to keep working openly and tirelessly without feeling that we are too high, on the contrary, we are properly here because the Frente Amplio party came to stay.” Beatriz Sánchez, who lead the related results oversee, said.
Beatriz Sánchez denounced that there was an unequal competition.
“There was a candidate who spent six times more than us and ten times more than us. We did it because there was a proper work, seriousness, coherence and conviction as we wanted to do it honestly, we did not want to deceive anyone” Beatriz Sánchez highlighted about the related work carried out in spite of the disadvantage.
Beatriz Sánchez pointed out that the political system in Chile is being been changed:
“Only watching the million and two hundred votes achieved and even all the votes which we achieved in the parliamentary group, we have doubled or tripled the quantity of lawmakers.”
By Ana Teresa Badía
Tweet
Latest from Rebelde
- Cuban energy sector offers business opportunities
- President of the Republic of Suriname to visit Cuba
- Cuba and EU discuss unilateral coercive measures today in Havana
- Cuba and North Korea sign MOU on Health
- Cassava provides Many Benefits for human health. Did you know it?
Most Read
- Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli to sing in Havana in December
- Scientific institutions from Cuba and Kazakhstan sign MOU and cooperation
- Heaven at hand in Havana Galiano Street
- Cuban freestyle wrestler Andreu becomes twice U23 world monarch
- The Return of the Left-Wing Trend in Argentina
Anniversaries
