Chileans head to the polls on Sunday to vote in the Andean nation's most divisive presidential election in decades, with two candidates offering starkly different visions for the future from pensions and privatization to human rights.
"Two models for the nation are going face-to-face," Kast wrote in a letter published Saturday in local newspaper El Mercurio, citing Boric's plans for "total transformation" and his own promising "change with order and stability.
"It is not that I am 100% with Boric, but now it is time to decide between two opposing options and Boric is my choice," said Javier Morales, 29, a construction worker who attended Boric's campaign closing event this week. Kast, meanwhile, has defended Pinochet's legacy and aimed barbs at Boric for his alliance with the Communist Party in his wide leftist coalition, which has"I feel Chile needs a bit of order," said Florencia Vergara, 25, a dentistry student, who is supporting Kast as the "lesser evil" for the economy. "I like his proposals on economic issues, although I don't agree with all his political ideals.
" having a real social security system that doesn't leave people behind, ending the hateful gap between healthcare for the rich and healthcare for the poor, advancing without hesitation in freedoms and rights for women," he said.
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