Chilean voters elected the most right-wing president in 35 years of democracy on Sunday, with official results showing arch-conservative Jose Antonio Kast with a thumping victory and his rival quickly conceding defeat.
With about 80 per cent of the votes counted, Kast had 58 per cent of the vote, an unassailable lead over Jeannette Jara, a Communist Party member heading a broad leftist coalition.
In central Santiago, Kast supporters beeped car horns, waved flags and cheered a man who once openly…
