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Jeannette Jara won the Left Coalition primary on Sunday in Chile for the presidential election next November.
The Chilean presidential candidate Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party welcomes her supporters after having voted during the primaries of the ruling party in Santiago. However, on June 29, 2025.
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Communist Jeannette Jara. Similarly, former Minister of Labor of President Gabriel Boric, won the primary of the left left coalition on Sunday in Chile for the presidential election next November.
Jeannette Jara obtained 60% of the votes. However, according to the results relating to 93% of stripped ballots, published by the electoral service (Servel).
Former Interior Minister Carolina Tohá arrived in second place with 27%of the votes, before the deputies Gonzalo Winter (8.9%) of President Boric Frente Amplio’s party, and Jaime chile: communist designated candidate presidential Mulet (2.8%) of a small ecological party.
A low participation – Chile: communist designated candidate presidential
It is the first time in the. history of the country that a large political coalition has chosen a member of the Communist Party as a candidate for the presidency.
President Boric. aged 39 and whose mandate ends in March 2026, cannot stand for representing himself, the Chilean Constitution prohibiting him a second consecutive term.
The electoral day. marked by the winter cold in a large part of the country, recorded a small participation: just over 1.3 million voters out of the 15 million called in the ballot box.
“A better candidate to face the right”
Jeannette Jara. a 51 -year -old lawyer, has established himself as a presidential figure chile: communist designated candidate presidential by piloting two emblematic reforms of the Boric government: the reduction of working time at 40 hours weekly and the pension reform.
Only the power coalition has chosen to submit to a primary. The other political forces have already appointed or designated their candidates internally.
Jeannette Jara should face the ultra -conservative José Antonio Kast during the presidential election. the representative of the traditional right Evelyn Matthei, both well placed in opinion surveys.
“Tohá was a better candidate to face the right. ” notes with AFP Mireya Davila, professor in political science at the University of Chile. According to her, the continuation now “will depend on the way in which Jara will build her campaign”.
“Avoid a voting leak to the right”
It chile: communist designated candidate presidential will be necessary to see what will be “her relationship with the center-left. and especially with his own party (the Communist Party, editor’s note), which she will have to channel to avoid a voting leak to the right”, adds the expert.
The presidential contenders have until August 18 to formalize their candidacy. The first round will be held on November 16. If no candidate exceeds 50% of the vote, a second round will oppose the two better placed on December 14.
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