Polls close in Chile presidential race expected to steer country to the right

Chileans voted Sunday in a runoff presidential election that looked set to mark the sharpest rightward shift of the South American country since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990. Even detractors of ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast say the candidate whose radical views lost him the past two elections is almost certain to become Chile’s next leader. 

Polls close in Chile presidential race expected to steer country to the right
Chileans voted Sunday in a runoff presidential election that looked set to mark the sharpest rightward shift of the South American country since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990. Even detractors of ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast say the candidate whose radical views lost him the past two elections is almost certain to become Chile’s next leader.