Don’t lose sight of the country-defining presidential election today in Chile between the Pinochet-nostalgic José Antonio Kast & left organizer Gabriel Boric.
For more context:
a profile of Kast: theguardian.com/world/2021/dec…
& a profile of Boric: cnn.com/2021/12/17/ame….
Chile’s runoff has triggered ugly & violence-condoning both-sideist takes bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
FIRST RESULTS in CHILE:
BORIC (left) leads KAST by 53.4% to 46.7% with 13% of precincts reporting; that's 950K votes already.
(In the first round, in November, the earlier batches of precincts counted skewed right.)
The left stays ahead in Chile, with 30% of precincts now reporting their votes (that's 2.2 million votes).
BORIC is now ahead of KAST 54.1% to 46.9%.
It's been called by Chilean media:
Gabriel Boric will be Chile's next president.
Kast has already conceded, & has issued a tweet congratulating Boric.
And the Chilean TV has upped its graphic game:
scenes of jubilant left celebration on Chilean TV
Chile wastes no time to showcase what a peaceful transition of power looks like.
Within an hour of the call, the incumbent President & the new President-Elect do a joint TV appearance & are now chatting back-and-forth.
Boric now leads by 11%, a historically large win in Chile.
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.