Tomorrow, November 15, Chilean citizens, included on a roll of 15.77 million people, will vote for one of the eight presidential candidates. Polls indicate polarization and mark in advance that the ruling coalition candidate, Jeanette Jara, would go to a second round with one of her opponents, as she starts with an expectation of garnering 30% of the votes. That number is not enough for a victory, as in Chile, 50% is needed to win in the first round. In second place is the persistent far-right former deputy José Antonio Kast, so both would advance to a second round. Other candidates who could sway the vote include various right-wing figures such as Evelyn Matthei or Johannes Kaiser. Kaiser, a libertarian of German descent who broke with Kast, another politician with Germanic reminiscences and son of a militant of the Teutonic Nazi party, is another notable candidate. Security, crime, and drugs are the main concerns of Chilean citizens and therefore the main campaign topics, reported various international media outlets. «In my government, there will be more security in neighborhoods,» Jara promised. She also promised that every Chilean family «will reach the end of the month peacefully» in economic terms. Meanwhile, Kast, on «his third attempt,» promises «change,» while the other German descendant, the libertarian Johannes Kaiser Barents-von Hohenhagen, surprised with the proposal to generate expulsions and operations with a prior stop at «reorientation camps or camps very close to the border with Bolivia,» according to a Xinhua news agency report. That man anticipated that he even seeks to speak with the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, to send prisoners to the country's mega-prison. Franco Parisi, from the People's Party (a populist/anti-system alternative), and Marco Enríquez-Ominami (ME-O), who is running as an independent in his fifth race for the Executive, are other candidates, according to the Newsweek Argentina report. Harold Mayne-Nicholls, a former sports leader, is running as an independent with a moderate discourse, and Eduardo Artés, a more radical left-wing option who has competed in other elections, round out the list. Jara stated in a campaign speech: «We will pull the thread where it hurts them (the criminals) the most: the route of dirty money».
