Polling stations close in Chile after a “calm” day

MADRID, December 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –

At 6:00 p.m. This Sunday (10:00 p.m. in mainland Spain), the polling stations for the second round of the Chilean presidential election closed their doors during a day that passed “quietly”.

“People were able to vote calmly, quickly and the number of voters in the polling stations poured in,” said the president of the Electoral Service of Chile (SERVEL), Pamela Figueroa Rubio, in statements reported by Radio Biobío radio.

The vote was “an expeditious process and much faster than the elections of November 16,” he stressed before mentioning the high percentage of established tables. “Before nine thirty in the morning, around 9:30 and 10:00 in the morning, we had installed more than 99 percent of the tables (…). Subsequently, we managed to install 100 percent of the tables on the national territory,” he said.

Figueroa thus underlined “the civic commitment, the democratic commitment of the members of the table”, thanking “the work they have accomplished so that the electoral process in our country takes place impeccably, as we are used to.”

So far, there is no data from exit polls or official monitoring of the election in which far-right candidate José Antonio Kast and left-wing pro-government candidate Jeannette Jara will face off.

Jara, 51, was the most voted option in the first round on November 16 with 26.9 percent of the vote, but his rival Kast (23.93 percent) plans to count on the support of the three other right-wing candidates after receiving their explicit support.