Chile’s former labor minister Jeannette Jara and far-right leader Jose Antonio Kast will face a presidential run-off after leading Sunday’s first-round vote, provisional results showed. With 82.97 percent of the vote counted,

Chile is bracing for a tense presidential runoff after a first-round vote Sunday set up a showdown between a member of the Communist Party and an ultraconservative who supports President Trump.

Chile is bracing for a tense presidential runoff after a first-round vote on Sunday set up a showdown between a member of the Communist Party and an ultraconservative veteran politician, sharply polar

The presidential runoff election will be between Jeannette Jara, a progressive from President Gabriel Boric’s governing coalition, and far-right former congressman José Antonio Kast

Chile is headed to a tense presidential runoff after a closely fought first-round vote Sunday set up a showdown between a member of the Communist Party and an ultraconservative veteran politician, sharply polarizing the country between the political left and right.

Chile's President Gabriel Boric on Sunday congratulated Jeannette Jara of Unidad por Chile and Jose Antonio Kast of the Republican Party on advancing to the presidential runoff, as 97 per cent of polling stations had reported.

It is almost a foregone conclusion that Communist Party candidate Jeannette Jara will top the field in the race today for president of Chile. That is