Chile’s right celebrates after pro-Pinochet presidential candidate wins first-round vote

José Antonio Kast will face progressive former student leader Gabriel Boric in runoff next month

Chile’s right wing have claimed a jubilant victory after José Antonio Kast, a former congressman with a history of defending the Pinochet dictatorship, secured a surprise win in the first round of the country’s presidential election.

Kast, who campaigned on a platform of public order, migration controls and conservative social values, confounded expectations to take 28% of the vote and beat the progressive former student leader Gabriel Boric by two percentage points.

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