Hard-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast wins Chile presidential election

Chilean voters elected the most right-wing president in 35 years of democracy on Sunday, as official results showed Jose Antonio Kast with a thumping 58 percent of votes and his rival conceding defeat. With more than ten million votes counted – almost 70 percent of the total – Kast had an unassailable lead over Jeannette Jara, a Communist Party member heading a broad leftist coalition.