Chileans cast their ballots in 2nd round of presidential elections
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Chilean voters will choose Sunday between a far-right and a leftist in the race for President.
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The very close race will be a defining moment in a country that has voted centrist for 31 years.
Chileans will choose Sunday between the far-right and leftist presidential candidates, in the second round of a very tight race.
Chile's people have been voting centrist since the ousting of Augusto Pinochet 31 years ago, but this race pits them between two opposite ends of the spectrum.
Some have concerns about the conservative economic and social policies of candidate Jose Antonio Kast, while others are put off by Gabriel Boric's political alliance with the Communist Party.
On the candidates
Kast, 55, has vowed to fight crime and praised the liberal "economic legacy" of former dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Leftist candidate Gabriel Boric is a 35-year-old MP who led student protests in 2011. His program is centered around the development of Chile's education system. He pledged to abolish the laissez-faire economic model while promoting environmental protection and indigenous people's rights.
The elections come following two years of protests, which were sometimes violent, to demand better living conditions.
Chile witnessed the opening of an investigation against its current President Sebastián Piñera, following the spread of reports that his family sold in 2010, during his first term, a share in the mines of Dominga worth $152 million, with part of the deal passing through a company registered in the British Virgin Islands.
