(ANSA) - SANTIAGO DEL CHILE, DEC 19 - The seats for the crucial ballot between the ultra-right leader José Antonio Kast and the left leader Gabriel Boric opened today in Chile, through whom the successor will be chosen by outgoing president Sebastián Piñera for the next four years.
The Chilean media stressed that never in democratic history since the end of the dictatorship of the late General Augusto Pinochet (1990) had there been a challenge for the presidency between such a right-wing candidate, like Kast, and one from the extreme left like Boric.
There is great uncertainty about the result of the vote because the latest unofficial polls (official ones are banned for two weeks) indicate a head to head between the two candidates, who are two relatively new faces of Chilean politics.
The polls will remain open for over 15 million rights until 6 pm (10 pm Italian time), while the first significant results should already be available a couple of hours after the close of the voting operations.
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