Chile’s Left-Wing Primary Surprise
Communist Party candidate Jeannette Jara’s landslide victory is a blow to the traditional Chilean center-left and signals a more polarized general election.
Few recent primary elections have had as powerful an impact on the political narrative as the surprising victories of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, selected as the Democratic Party’s mayoral candidate in New York City, and Jeannette Jara of the Partido Comunista de Chile, chosen as the presidential candidate of the left-wing Unidad por Chile (UC) coalition on June 29. Both Mamdani and Jara defeated establishment figures who, in the weeks leading up to the election, had appeared to be the presumptive nominees for their respective parties. Their victories suggest that the...
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