Chilean communist former minister Jeannette Jara and conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast will head to a presidential runoff election on December 14 following Sunday’s general election results.
Chile held a new general election on Sunday, which saw eight different candidates competing to succeed outgoing far-left President Gabriel Boric once his term ends in March 2026. The election also saw Chilean voters renew all 115 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 23 of the 50 seats at the Senate.
Preliminary results from Chile’s Servel Electoral Service at press time indicate that Jara, running under the Unity for Chile leftist coalition, obtained 26.85 percent of the votes, with Kast and the conservative Change for Chile coalition coming in second place after obtaining 23.92 percent.
Franco Parisi of the centrist populist People’s Party defied local polls, and came in third place with 19.71 of the votes, whil
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