'Right will win election': Chile to see 'relatively conservative, pro-market' reforms in near-term
Chileans face perhaps the starkest choice in the history of their country’s young democracy when they vote next month in a presidential runoff that pits hard-right José Antonio Kast against communist Jeannette Jara. Neither candidate cleared the 50% threshold to win, but Kast heads into the second round of voting best positioned to succeed after an unprecedented 70% of voters backed an array of right-wing parties in Sunday’s poll. An ultraconservative lawyer who vows to deport Chile’s estimated 300,000 immigrants without legal status and speaks nostalgically of Chile’s brutal dictatorship. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, François Picard welcomes Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez, Adjunct Lecturer in the Global Initiatives in Management Program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Chileans face perhaps the starkest choice in the history of their country’s young democracy when they vote next month in a presidential runoff that pits hard-right José Antonio Kast against communist Jeannette Jara. Neither candidate cleared the 50% threshold to win, but Kast heads into the second round of voting best positioned to succeed after an unprecedented 70% of voters backed an array of right-wing parties in Sunday’s poll. An ultraconservative lawyer who vows to deport Chile’s estimated 300,000 immigrants without legal status and speaks nostalgically of Chile’s brutal dictatorship. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, François Picard welcomes Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez, Adjunct Lecturer in the Global Initiatives in Management Program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
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