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Chile Picks New President with Far Right Candidate the Front-Runner
Nearly 16 million Chilean voters face a choice between Kast's hardline security policies and Jara's leftist platform amid rising crime and migration concerns.
- On Sunday, father-of-nine Jose Antonio Kast faces Jeannette Jara in a runoff, with Kast positioned as the most right-wing candidate in 35 years of Chilean democracy.
- Data indicate public safety concerns outweigh the economy, healthcare and education, as Chilean voters cite rising violent crime amid the COVID-19 pandemic and social protests.
- Kast emphasizes tough-on-crime policies and strict immigration controls, vowing mass deportations and opposing abortion without exceptions while campaigning from behind bulletproof glass.
- Observers warn the outcome might revive fears tied to Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, with critics fearing authoritarianism and more than 3,000 victims, while a Kast victory could enact mass deportations of undocumented migrants.
- Electoral rules shape turnout as voting is compulsory for the first time in more than a decade, while Jeannette Jara's record as labor minister is a political liability tied to the ruling party.
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Chile picks new president with far right candidate the front-runner
Chileans elect a new president on Sunday, facing a stark choice between the most right-wing candidate in 35 years of democracy and the head of a broad leftist coalition.
·Missoula, United States
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The frontrunner in Chile's presidential election on Sunday, José Antonio Kast, has personal ties to the Pinochet regime, but analysts say his government is unlikely to resemble the radical right-wing presidents currently ruling elsewhere in the region.
In favour of the second round, Kast repeats dictatorship rates and resumes debate on Pinochet's league in a politically divided Chile
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