SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) -- Chile elected its most right-wing president in 35 years of democracy on Sunday, with archconservative Jose Antonio Kast scoring a thumping victory over his leftist runoff rival.
With almost all the ballots counted, Kast won some 58 percent of the vote and held an unassailable lead over Jeannette Jara, a communist who headed a broad leftist coalition.
Kast campaigned on a promise to expel more than 300,000 immigrants, seal the northern border, take a "firm hand" on near-record crime rates and restart the stalled economy.
"Chile wanted change" he told thousa
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