Two political outsiders with polar opposite social and political views go head-to-head in a runoff election Sunday to become Chile's next president.
Lawyer and ex-MP Jose Antonio Kast, 55, is an outspoken admirer of Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet and of his neoliberal economic model that has boosted private enterprise, critics say at the expense of the poor and working classes.
This is Kast's second presidential contest -- in 2017, as an independent, he made it to fourth place with less than eight percent of the vote. He has softened his position on several points since November, reversing his proposal to scrap the ministry of women's affairs and backing down on his threat to undo Chile's already limited right to abortion, which is only allowed in cases of rape, if the fetus is unviable, or if the woman's life is at risk.
The millennial campaigned on introducing "a welfare state so that everyone has the same rights no matter how much money they have in their wallet." "If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism in Latin America, it will also be its grave," he said on the campaign trail.
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