SANTIAGO, Chile－A right-wing fiscal conservative and a left-wing former student activist will vie to become president of Chile next month, according to media outlets. This comes two years after anti-inequality protests set the country on the path to constitutional change.
SANTIAGO, Nov 22 Two men on polar opposites of Chile’s political spectrum took a convincing lead in a first-round presidential election yesterday, two years after protests that set the country on the path to constitutional change. With 65 per cent of votes counted, far-right candidate Jose.
A far-right fiscal conservative and a left-wing former student activist are to vie to become president of Chile next month, two years after anti-inequality protests that set the country on the path to constitutional change.
Jose Antonio Kast, 55, and Gabriel Boric, 35, took a convincing lead over five rivals in a first voting round on Sunday to pass to the runoff on Dec. 19.
Kast of the far-right Republican Party took almost 28 percent of the vote, according to a near-complete count, followed closely by leftist lawmaker Boric of the Approve Dignity alliance with more than 25 percent.
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