Agreed. Though I would put the number closer to 30 -35 percent. I put the country in thirds. One third undying leftists, one third essentially conservative, and the third that has to be convinced at election and encuesta times.
Even the inveterate Marxists in the country are less than pleased with the insufficient extremism of Comrade Boric and so his approval of just 27 percent lately I believe is from that disappointment effect.
When I watched a clip of the counting of the local votes for a recent municipal election and saw such seriousness on the faces of the counters and scrutineers, and how each ballot was shown to the camera and then carefully placed in the candidates pile. Imagine, piles of real ballots with the leaning tower of Pisa pile of the winning candidate, it lifted my heart. In a world wrought with corruption, there was such an idealistic innocence to it.
Itās strange, but for me, as a Chilean, the possibility of electoral fraud in our country is inconceivable. I remember elections since 1964, and I have never met anyone who suspected the integrity of the process. That belief still stands to this day. There are a few who complain about the electoral serviceāsometimes with reasonābut Iāve never seen anyone who is convinced that there has been fraud in an election here. Iām not saying that fraud has never happened or that it couldnāt happen in the future, but I want you to notice this deep convictionāwidely shared, I believeāamong Chileans that elections here, in general, are fair.