Presidential election in Chile: what are the stakes against the backdrop of the Pandora Papers scandal?

Chilean President Sebastian Piñera during a press conference at La Moneda Palace in Santiago, October 4, 2021. AP - Esteban Felix

By: Chantal Lorho Follow

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On November 21, 2021, some 15 million Chileans are called to elect the successor of Sébastian Pinera, the current right-wing president, mired in the Pandora Papers scandal.

7 candidates are in the running to occupy the Moneda Palace. 

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Will the Chileans set the bar on the left by choosing Gabriel Boric, 35, favorite of the polls or give in to the populist sirens embodied by the far-right candidate José Antonio Kast, 55, defender of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and admirer of Brazilian Jaïr Bolsonaro.

Does the calamitous end of Sébastian Pinera's mandate risk weighing on the November 21 ballot?

In which way ?

What model of society do Chileans want?

Will the Pinochet era, with the new Constitution expected for July 2022, come to an end? 

Three guests: 

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Franck Gaudichaud,

Professor of History and Latin American Studies at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, author of “ 

Current Chile: Governing and Resisting in a Neoliberal Society 

” at L'Harmattan

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Lissel Quiroz

, University professor in Latin American Studies at Cergy Paris University, published “ 

Feminism and activism in the Americas

 ”, at the Rouen University Press in 2021.

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Christophe Ventura,

research director at IRIS (Institute of International and Strategic Relations), participated in the collective work “

 The strategic year 2022

 ”, published by IRIS, in which he wrote the chapter “ 

L ' Latin America put to the test of its reconstruction

 ”.

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