*Citizens in charge of supervising act of voting fervently defend democracy
*Voting is a process as complex as the verification and counting
*Suffrage is compulsory under threat of fine
*Hundreds of people celebrated attendance of former Mayor Daniel Jaude to vote
*Elections were held over two days
*Voting is a process as complex as the verification and counting
*Suffrage is compulsory under threat of fine
*Hundreds of people celebrated attendance of former Mayor Daniel Jaude to vote
*Elections were held over two days
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00:00In Chile, the second and last election day was marked by the vote of former Mayor Daniel
00:04Hadue, finally authorized by the court to be released from house arrest.
00:07Let's see.
00:08He is sitting at a desk, and although he is still in school, this time he had to be a
00:15voting officer at the age of 18.
00:18That's why he brings a ball, to play in the free time he thought he would have.
00:22But these elections give no truce.
00:24There are a lot of votes to count and verify.
00:30Like him, his young table mates are also responsible for this electoral act in Chile.
00:36It is their first time participating, and they face two fierce proxies of political
00:40parties that supervise every movement.
00:43It is what they must do, even if others are kinder than them, like Don Fernando.
00:47At 84 years of age, although he is there to defend the votes of his coalition, his civic
00:52spirit is to defend democracy.
00:58We guarantee that in the election we verify that the vote corresponds, that it is signed
01:03correctly and that it reflects the will of the person who voted, and if there is any
01:06conversation necessary to clarify something, we leave it to what the law indicates and
01:11we follow the procedures of the law.
01:14If the preference marked is not clear, the debate will begin, and it is almost always
01:21the null votes that are the most discussed because if a scratch marks an option, the
01:25most passionate proxies will try to add it to their candidate.
01:29This will not be the case of Constanza.
01:31She made sure to nullify her ballot without any doubt.
01:40I stopped voting because it was not mandatory, and once it was mandatory again, I came back
01:45to vote.
01:46I don't think anything can happen, I have no hope that this will change.
01:50The truth is that I want to go and live in the countryside, far away from everything.
02:01But there, in the countryside, she will also have to vote.
02:04In Chile, suffrage is obligatory under threat of a fine, and while Constanza is looking
02:10for ways to avoid it, there are others who, even in provisional detention, are looking
02:14for ways to vote.
02:15There are so many politicians and celebrities imprisoned in Chile today, that this was another
02:20of the issues that marked the day.
02:22The former reality girl and former mayor of Maipú, under house arrest for embezzlement,
02:28had legal permission but did not go.
02:33I am making this video because I find it incomprehensible that the media and the press are once again
02:38at my doorstep announcing a news that does not exist.
02:42I could not go to vote at the authorized time.
02:47Daniel Jaru, the former communist mayor investigated for the unpublished popular pharmacies in
02:52Chile, had no problem receiving the press at the door of his house, where he is being
02:57held in preventive custody.
02:59In fact, his arrival at the precinct was accompanied by hundreds of supporters who condemned his
03:04persecution and celebrated his attendance to vote.
03:10It is important to highlight the fact that someone from the Third Guarantee Court has
03:13corrected the arbitrariness of Judge Munoz, who, after five days, tried to prevent me
03:19from exercising a constitutional right such as the right to vote.
03:28A long day that extends with a slow count for the positions of mayor, regional councillors,
03:34councilmen and governors, marking the public interest in the positions that will administer
03:38the capital and the most important cities of the country.
03:46It is the citizens who do the weighing when it comes to making choices.
03:49Their voice is the one that matters on a day like today, not the predictions that we, the
03:53authorities and analysts, can make.
03:58It will be necessary to see which political coalitions are the most punished in the midst
04:03of the apathy that forces citizens to this minimal democratic participation.
04:08Paola Dracnyk, Telesur, Chile.