Chileans head to the polls as presidential vote opens
Chileans begin voting for a new president, making a stark choice between the most right-wing candidate in 35 years of democracy and the head of a leftist coalition.
Nearly 15.6 million registered voters in Chile are set to cast ballots. Polls will close at 6 p.m. local time (2100 GMT), pending voter lines, with initial results expected soon after.
The runoff pits Jose Antonio Kast, from the far-right Republican Party that he founded, against Jeannette Jara, the incumbent leftist government's coalition candidate from the Communist Party.
While Jara was ahead in November's first round with 26.85% of the vote, Kast beat out an array of right-wing candidates to finish second with 23.92%. Most of the voters who supported those right-wing candidates are projected to vote for Kast, which could give him more than 50% of the ballots and the presidency.
(Sources: Agencies)
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