Who are the 9 presidential candidates of Chile? | One by one, those registered for the November 21 elections

Nine presidential candidates will be vying for the Chilean elections. They are the ones who registered in front of the Electoral Service (Servel) after obtaining the more than 33,000 necessary sponsorships and confirming their name on the ballot for the elections of November 21 and, possibly, of the second round of December 19.

Sebastián Sichel, the official candidate,

The ruling conservative bloc candidate Sebastián Sichel lived in hippie camps and did not watch television as a child. The 43-year-old lawyer was originally a member of the Christian Democracy and later supported Sebastián Piñera, to the point of being one of its ministers (Social Development).

Earlier this year, interviewed by the 24 Horas channel, he said he was a “center” presidential candidate. He added that the right “is missing a street” and that a center-right government needs “a common ideological cause, but with social and cultural diversity”.

He left the presidency of Banco Estado to be one of the candidates in the coalition that led Piñera to win the 2017 presidential elections. This week, Vamos Chile changed his name to support Sichel’s candidacy to “Chile Podemos + “

Regarding his proposals, Sichel said that in the first 100 days of his eventual government, he will focus on reducing bureaucracy, freeing entrepreneurship and strengthening the social protection network.

Gabriel Boric, the candidate of the left bloc I approve of Dignity

I approve of dignity coalition candidate Gabriel Boric surprised Frente Amplio by beating poll favorite and Communist Party candidate Daniel Jadue in the primaries.

“If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave,” Boric said in his opening words as a presidential candidate from the left.

The youngest presidential candidate, had an active student activism and was one of the spokespersons of the Confederation of Chilean Students in 2011. Student mobilizations catapulted him onto the country’s national scene and in March 2014 he assumed the post of Member of Parliament which he renewed in the 2017 elections.

Yasna Provoste, the center-left candidate

Two days after the registration deadline, Yasna Provoste won by a large majority in citizen consultation and became the presidential letter of Constituent Unity, the bloc made up of center-left parties in Chile.

Provoste, 51, joined the Christian Democrats at 14, while the Pinochet dictatorship still ruled Chile. Under the Piñera government, she gained visibility thanks to her position as President of the Senate, where she played a key role at the crossroads between the Executive and the Congress, notably in the management of the pandemic.

The DC member has been part of the center-left government teams since her youth. She was a member of the government teams of Eduardo Frei (1994-2000) and Ricardo Lagos (2000-2006) and was Minister of Education during Michelle Bachelet’s first term (2006-2010), but in 2008 she was dismissed from his post. due to a constitutional charge which left him five years without being able to participate in elections or hold public office.

When the Constituent Unit formalized its parliamentary list to the Servel, it began to use the name “Nouveau Pacte social”.

José Antonio Kast, the candidate of the far-right Republican Party

While the television channels announced the surprise triumphs of Boric and Sichel in the primary elections, the leader of the right-wing Republican Party, José Antonio Kast, formalized his candidacy for the November elections from his Twitter account.

The lawyer and former deputy campaigned for many years in the Independent Democratic Union (UDI). Kast was a candidate in the 2017 elections. On this occasion, he obtained 7.93% of the vote, which represents the support of more than 523,000 Chileans.

Kast claims, without complexes, the legacy of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, to the point that during the last electoral campaign he declared that “to take the whole question of human rights” the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990) was more important “for the development of the country.” That the first government of Piñera, between 2010 and 2014.

He also strictly respects the broad programmatic orientations of right-wing leaders like Jair Bolsonaro and political groups like Vox de España: he is against the decriminalization of abortion and marriage equality, he repeatedly mentions the “globalist plan”. of George Soros ”and presented plans to prevent the entry of immigrants (in the last campaign he proposed to close the border with Bolivia).

Marco Enríquez-Ominami, the candidate of the Progressive Party (PRO)

The founder and leader of the Center-Left Progressive Party (PRO) of Chile, Marco Enríquez-Ominami, has confirmed on his social media that he will be a presidential candidate for the fourth time.

Enríquez-Ominami was able to register after the Constitutional Court (TC) accepted a request from the leader of the PRO to regain his political rights. Enríquez-Ominami is accused of paying irregular election expenses in 2013 and receiving illegal funding from the company Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile before 2016.

In an interview with Futura radio, the politician and filmmaker said he wanted to “be present in the presidential election to remove” the government of Sebastián Piñera and “his remote control Sichel”, in reference to the official candidate. Who is the quiet force for change? I don’t see it in Chile, ”he added.

Diego Ancalao, the candidate of the Popular List

Mapuche activist Diego Ancalao managed to collect the necessary signatures and registered as the presidential candidate of the Popular List movement.

“I am a Mapuche person who lives both worlds, discrimination, lack of opportunities, and this candidacy aims to heal the deep wounds that this country has, inequalities, poverty, with mother earth and the debt that he owed to the indigenous people, “he said.

“This candidacy seeks to represent those of Chile Profundo, forgotten and excluded, who have never had the opportunity to speak for themselves, because they have always been interpreted by political parties, who speak on behalf of the poor and the people, but do not want them from the poor and that the people enter the presidential debate, ”he added.

Eduardo Artés, the candidate of the Patriotic Union

The current secretary general of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) will run under the aegis of the Patriotic Union, a party of which he is also president. Eduardo Artés Brichetti, 69, is running for the second time since the 2009 elections when he reached 0.51% of the vote.

Franco Parisi and Gino Lorenzini, candidates of the People’s Party

Franco Parisi will seek again the presidency, this time for the Popular Party. The engineer presented himself in 2013 as an independent candidate.

On this occasion, Parisi will share the same coalition as the founder of the financial company Felices y Forrados, Gino Lorenzini. After collecting more than 42,000 signatures, Lorenzini formalized his place on the ballot and assured that he would promote “popular capitalism that puts money in people’s pockets”.