SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast is favoured to clinch a runoff victory next month despite lagging slightly behind governing coalition candidate Jeannette Jara in Chile’s first-round presidential vote yesterday.
With nearly all ballots tallied, Jara, the first Communist Party member to be a finalist for the Chilean presidency, was holding 27% of the vote versus 24% for Kast, a tight margin that underscored deep political divisions.
An eventual win for Kast would put in place an administration that is further to the right than any other since the Pinochet dictatorship.
A December 14 runoff will pit those two ideological extremes against each other, as many voters signaled that they were prioritiz
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