SANTIAGO, Chile — People will be faced with a choice between far-right José Antonio Kast, a career politician running for the presidency for a third time – the overwhelming favorite according to polls – and left-wing Jeannette Jara, a Communist Party member and former labor minister.

With the candidates on offer so starkly opposed in their visions for Chile, many will be casting their votes for a candidate they don't feel wholly represents them in an election in which participation is compulsory.

At a closing rally in the southern city of Temuco on Thursday evening, Kast gave a lengthy speech, restating the core themes of his campaign to a crowd of several thousand, many of them young men waving Chilean flags.

Guttural cries of "Communists out!" rose among the crowd, but the loudest c

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