SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — As Chileans vote on Sunday, even detractors of ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast say the candidate whose radical concepts misplaced him the previous two elections is prone to turn out to be the nation’s subsequent chief.
Kast’s commanding lead within the polls over his rival in the presidential runoff, communist Jeannette Jara, exhibits how the hard-liner agitating for mass deportations of immigrants has seized the mantle of the standard proper in a rustic that when outlined its post-dictatorship democratic revival with a vow to include such political forces.
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