Chileans are electing their next president following a polarizing campaign. The vote pits a free-market firebrand likened to Donald Trump against a millennial former student protest leader who promises to attack nagging inequality.
Electoral workers prepare a school to be a polling station for the presidential run-off election in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. Chile will hold a presidential run-off election on Dec. 19.
in the first round of voting last month but failed to secure a majority of votes. That set up a head-to-head runoff against Gabriel Boric, who trailed him by about two percentage points. Kast, 55, a devout Roman Catholic and father of nine, emerged from the far right fringe after having won less than 8% of the vote in 2017. He rose steadily in the polls this time with a divisive discourse emphasizing conservative family values and playing on Chileans’ fears that a surge in migration — from Haiti and Venezuela — is driving crime.and advocating more restrictive abortion laws.
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