President Piñera denies talking about electoral interventionism but assures that the values that Chile has to protect are “freedom, peace, order”

The Government, in each election, must maintain the presidency and not express support for any of the candidates. However, President Sebastián Piñera slipped on Tuesday the values that, in his opinion, should be protected in the face of the second round on December 19 between the far-right José Antonio Kast (Christian Social Front) and the leftist Gabriel Boric (I approve Dignity), giving the impression that he is supporting one.
“I believe that on Sunday democracy triumphed, we had a clean, peaceful, participatory, transparent election. No one disputed the results. It is enough to see what happens in other countries to realize that it was an exercise in democracy and therefore democracy triumphed,” said the outgoing president at a press conference after the presentation of a new system of electronic complaints by Virtual Police Station, in the Centennial Building of Carabineros.
According to Piñera, “the government is going to assure, in the first place, to all Chileans their right to vote and participate, their freedoms, their opportunities, and the candidates will also guarantee that it is an election in which they can express their points of view and that Chileans can choose freely.”
“I do not want to make any kind of electoral intervention, but I believe that in Chile today what we have to protect is freedom, peace, order, tranquility, progress, justice, human rights, the environment. Those are the values we want to defend and promote and that is what we have done as a government from day one,” he said.

Original source in Spanish