The Chilean People’s Party (centre-right) took its official position, on Sunday, on the empty or invalid vote in the second round of the Chilean presidential elections, after its members spoke, by a majority of more than three-quarters, in this way, in the face of the possibility of voting for the ruling party of Janet Jara (left) and the far-right party Jose Antonio Cast, both ahead of the leader of the Chilean People’s Party, Franco Baresi.
The party’s president, Rodrigo Fatone, announced in statements to the media, “The result is overwhelming, and I will point to the choice of the People’s Party. 78 percent leaned toward the blank or white option, 20 percent favored the option of presidential candidate José Antonio Cast, and 2 percent favored the presidential option of Ms. Janet Jara.”
After that, the party itself announced in a statement that “the People’s Party adopts the zero or white option as its official position for the second round.”
The text in which the organization promised to continue its political path said, “The Democratic Party remains resolute, working with humility and conviction, despite being excluded from various places and ignored by the ballot boxes, and we have once again consolidated ourselves as the third political force in the country.”
The decision came after the Kadem polling company published, on Saturday, a study stating that among those who voted for Parisi in the first round, 37 percent would vote for Kast, 22 percent for Jara, and 41 percent did not know. In this report, the far right will outperform its competitor with the support of 58% of those surveyed, compared to 42% for the left.