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CHILEAN Communist Party candidate Daniel Jadue has emerged as the shock front-runner ahead of November’s presidential elections, with a number of polls predicting he could sweep to power.
Pollster Cadem, which has close connections to the right-wing government of President Sebastien Pinera, was the latest to place Mr Jadue top for popular support on Monday, above Joaquin Lavin, the far-right candidate of the Independent Democratic Union, and the Christian Democratic Party’s Yasna Provote, who has yet to formally declare as a candidate.
It follows a recent Panel Ciudadano survey, carried out by the Universidad del Desarrollo, which found that Mr Jadue would win in all possible scenarios, including run-offs against his two closest rivals.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Communist Party presidential candidate JEANNETTE JARA challenges the Chilean left to stop talking only among comrades and reach out to angry voters abandoned by politics in the race against the far right this November
