00:00Former Labour Minister Jeanette Jara of Chile's ruling Communist Party secured a narrow lead
00:06against far-right candidate José Antonio Cust in Sunday's first presidential election round.
00:12Jara received 27 percent of the vote against Cust's 24 percent, meaning a runoff will be
00:18held on the 14th of December. Jara faces a challenge ahead of her as the first round
00:23results showed strong support for right-leaning candidates. Businessmen and celebrity economists
00:29Franco Parisi performed better than most polls suggested by securing roughly 20 percent of the
00:35vote, finishing third. Another 14 percent of the votes went to Johannes Kaiser, a libertarian
00:42congressman and a former YouTube pundit, positioning himself further to the right than Cust.
00:48Chile's traditional center-right coalition under Evelyn Matei won around 12 percent of the vote.
00:54Not all of the divided right is guaranteed to go to Cust. Several Kaiser and Matei voters
01:00interviewed at polling stations on Sunday said they would refuse to support Cust,
01:05citing his strongly conservative platform.
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