The right won and added 36 mayors and thus managed to be in charge of a total of 121 municipalities.
The leftist coalition of the president of Chili, Gabriel Boricfell in the municipal and regional elections that took place this weekend. The right won but by a smaller margin than expected and added 36 mayoraltiesaccording to data from Electoral Service (Servel)with the 84% of the tables scrutinized.
Chile Vamos, the center-right group achieved a total of 121 mayorswhile the ruling coalition Contigo Chile Mejor lost 40 municipalities and he was left with 110 mayors. Third, independents without party affiliation they obtained 104 mayors. For its part, the The extreme right was left with only eight municipalities of the 345 that were at stake.
More than 15.4 million Chileans voted this weekend to elect a total of 345 mayors, 16 governors, 2,256 councilors and 302 regional councilors. In the regional gubernatorial elections, 11 of the 16 provinces They will be defined in a second round on November 24.
The center-right advances in Chile
“On the whole, The ruling party lost a significant number of municipalities at the national level, although it managed maintain key municipalitiesas was the case of Maipu, in Santiago, with a resounding victory for Tomás Vodanovic,” he analyzed in dialogue with the AFP agency Rodrigo Espinozapolitical scientist at the Diego Portales University.
Vodanovic, of the Frente Amplio, was re-elected with the largest vote in the country, with a 70%. The traditional right “added a significant number of municipalitieswhile the Republican Party (far-right) added eight municipalities, which was below expectations,” he added.
One of the most painful defeats for the government of Boric It occurred in the commune of Santiago, where the communist Irací Hassler lost re-election to the right-wing Mario Desborde.
However, in the metropolitan region of Santiago, the official candidate Claudio Orrego was imposed with a 38.7% of the votes against the candidate of the traditional right, Francisco Orrego, with 27.8%.
Scandal in Chilean politics due to allegations of sexual abuse
The elections took place in a context of political crisis in the midst of a scandal over allegations of corruption and sexual abuse that shook Chilean society in recent weeks.
First, the case “Beautiful” about the influence peddling network set up by the prestigious lawyer of the elites Luis Hermosilla and that impacted the traditional right for the links it established with that sector.
However, the complaint also involved Manuel Monsalve, the security strongman of the Boric government.
Source: Ambito
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