Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast wins Chile’s presidential election

Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast wins Chile’s presidential election

Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast has won a run-off election to become Chile’s 38th president, ousting the centre-left government currently in power, Al Jazeera reports.   On Sunday, with nearly all the ballots counted, Kast prevailed with 58 percent of the vote, defeating former Labour Minister Jeannette Jara, a Communist Party politician who represented the…

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