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TexasTowelie

(124,321 posts) Mon Nov 17, 2025, 01:11 AM Yesterday

Chile elections: Communist Party candidate Jeanette Jara appears to be in lead - DW News

Chile is set for a run-off presidential vote next month, after Sunday's election failed to establish a clear winner. While vote counting is still underway, early results put leftist Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party narrowly ahead of the hard-right José Antonio Kast of the Republican Party. Neither candidate managed to secure 50% of votes, which is needed to claim victory. The election campaign was dominated by concerns over rising crime and immigration in Chile, with calls from the right for mass deportations. Speaking to supporters after polls closed, Jeanette Jara criticised her right wing opponents' fear-based campaigns.

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"Hard right" in Chile means Pinochet style government and crony capitalism. SharonAnn 11 hrs ago #1

Fun fact: the RW candidate, Jose Kast, is the son of a Wehrmacht Nazi peppertree 8 hrs ago #2

SharonAnn

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1. "Hard right" in Chile means Pinochet style government and crony capitalism.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 01:24 PM

11 hrs ago

The “disappearance” (murders) of thousands of protestors, academics, writers, etc. The plundering of state coffers by connected cronies. The subjugation (by “law enforcement”) of the general population.

Last time a left-wing candidate won there, we aided and funded the Pinochet takeover.

peppertree

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2. Fun fact: the RW candidate, Jose Kast, is the son of a Wehrmacht Nazi

Reply to SharonAnn (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 05:14 PM

8 hrs ago

Something Kast denied for years - until the Nazi Party paperwork surfaced (und zis little photo):

And his brother Miguel, was Chile's Central Bank president during Pinochet's calamitous 1982-83 collapse - which Reagan then decided to bail him out of (à la Trump/Argentina)...

Them apples didn't fall far from the tree.

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