A consensus-driven communist and a far-right law-and-order candidate vowing mass migrant deportations will duel for president of Chile after topping a first round of voting on Sunday.

Here is a brief biography of both:

– Reluctant communist –

Jeannette Jara is a rare working-class candidate in a country where political leaders are usually drawn from descendants of the European immigrant elite.

A former labor minister under outgoing center-left President Gabriel Boric, she grew up in El Cortijo, a deprived neighborhood in northern Santiago.

“For the first time since our return to democracy (after a 1973-1990 military dictatorship), a person coming from a working-class neighborhood could rise to govern,” she told AFP in a written interview.

The diminutive 51-year-old swept the boards i

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