2nd round campaign in Chile is a new focus of polarization in South America

The election to define the next president of Chile is presented as a dispute between two antagonistic proposals: on the one hand, a leftist candidacy, and on the other, an extreme right. After the first round last Sunday (21), Chilean voters will return to the polls on December 19 to make a choice between deputy Gabriel Boric, who emerged in local politics as a student leader, and lawyer José Antonio Kast, appointed as an admirer of the regime of General Augusto Pinochet.

The scenario of political division in Chile is a new focus of polarization in South America, after the defeat of the Argentine government in the country’s legislative elections on the 14th and on the eve of a year of a new electoral race in Brazil.

In this episode of E Tem Mais, Carol Nogueira presents an overview of the electoral campaign in Chile and the direction of political disputes in South America. researcher João Vitor Cardoso, from the Center for Conflict and Social Cohesion Studies (Coes) and doctoral candidate at the University of Chile, and professor Carolina Silva Pedroso, specialist in Latin America at Unifesp.

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(* Posted by Diego Toledo)