An unexpected development affects the election race in Chile. Six of the seven candidates in the November 21 presidential election will need to suspend their campaigns and be quarantined for a week after the first-round favorite was diagnosed with the new coronavirus, following discussions he had with face with the rest.
The candidate of the left Gabriel Boric, 35 years old, announced yesterday Wednesday (3/11) through social networking sites that he was infected with SARS-CoV-2, although he is fully vaccinated, and shows symptoms of COVID-19, more specifically fever and cough,
The previous two days, o Mr. Boric, former leader of the student movement, took part in discussions with his Christian Democrat opponent Yasna Try, the far left candidate Eduardo Artes, that of the center-right Sebastian Sitchel, the far right candidate Antonio Cast and that of the Progressive Party, Marco Enriquez-Ominami.
“Although the results of the PCR tests of the other candidates had a negative result, this does not relieve them of the obligation to be quarantined,” he said. Î¥Minister of Health, Enrique Paris.
Only one candidate will avoid compulsory isolation: o Franco Paris, of the Party for Youth, living in USA and refrained from traveling to campaign in Chile, where he is facing a judicial investigation for non-payment of debts to the state.
According to a poll by the institute Data Influences, published yesterday Wednesday (3/11), o Mr. Boric, a candidate in the left-wing coalition Apruebo Dignidad (“I Approve Dignity”), leads the first round with 32% of the vote. The following follows Jose Antonio Cast of the Republican Party, which was in first place in a poll by another institute, which aired on Sunday.
THE Mr. Cast, lawyer, 55 years old, defender of his dictatorship August Pinochet (1973-1990) and an admirer of its president Brazil, Zaich Bolsonaru, has been on the rise in opinion polls for several weeks. This rise is recorded mainly at the expense of the candidate of the liberal right Sebastian Sitchel (9%), 44 years old, candidate of the outgoing president’s alliance Sebastian Pinera.
According to opinion polls, Mr. Boric, the youngest presidential candidate in its history Chile, will face him Mr. Cast in the second round of the presidential elections on 19 December. In third place is the senator of the Christian Democrats, Yasna Try (13%).
More than 15 million citizens Chile will be called to the polls in a few days to elect a new president, renew the composition of parliament and nominate governors.
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