The first poll of the year, conducted by the Plaza Publica Cadem pollsters, assessed the different events since 2000, and the priority issues that the government should address.

Forty-three percent of respondents stated that the most significant event in the first quarter of the century was the Covid-19 pandemic, which left around 62,000 people dead.

This was followed by the 2010 8.8-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale that struck the country’s central-south region, killing more than 500 people and injuring two million.

Third was the social outbreak against the neoliberal model in October 2019, in which millions of Chileans took to the streets, and the police repression killed about 30 people and thousands suffered serious injuries, including about 400 with eye damage.

Seventy-one out of 100 Chileans believed that the fight against crime and drug trafficking should be the government’s top priority.

Migration, economy, inflation, growth, employment, pensions, health, poverty, and inequality also affected Chile in this period.

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