Chileans polarized ahead of presidential election as far-right candidate poised to prevail

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : She engineered Boric's most significant welfare measures as his minister of labor.
55% : " Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
42% : Borrowing from Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei, Kast aims to slash red tape, shrink the public payroll and cut state spending by $6 billion within just 18 months of taking office.
36% : Boric had been critical of what he has called Israel's "disproportionate" response to the October 7 attack by Hamas.
35% : She has reportedly floated suspending Chile's relations with Israel Jara's rival is their worst fear: The son of a Nazi party member with a fondness for Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship.
33% : Opponents also sounded alarm bells over his fierce opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion without exception.
30% : Chile, which has the largest Palestinian population outside the Arab world, joined calls in January for an investigation by the International Criminal Court into possible war crimes in the Israel-Hamas war.
28% : A defiant foreign policy -- outspoken against Israel's conduct in its two-year war against Hamas in Gaza, as well as US President Donald Trump and Venezuela's autocratic President Nicolas Maduro -- made Chile a regional champion of democracy.
21% : Just weeks after the massacre, he recalled Chile's ambassador to Israel to protest Israel's "unacceptable violations of international humanitarian law" in Gaza.

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