Jara and Kast head to second round in Chile's tight presidential race

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Jara and Kast head to second round in Chile's tight presidential race  Jeannette Jara of Chile's Communist Party leads narrowly against far-right candidate José Antonio Kast after the first presidential election round, with a runoff set for 14 December.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/11/17/jara-and-kast-head-to-second-round-in-chiles-tight-presidential-race  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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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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