Chile Election Pits Hardline Catholic Against Leftist Candidate
- Candidates have opposing views on abortion, same sex marriage
- Kast and Boric will compete in presidential runoff on Dec. 19
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Chilean presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast is 55 years old, has nine children and is a member of the Catholic Schoenstatt movement. His rival, Gabriel Boric, is 20 years younger, agnostic and single with no children, and once said monogamy wasn’t the only option.
You couldn’t get two more different people to face off in Chile’s runoff presidential election set for Dec. 19. It’s shaping up to be as much a battle of generations, or cultures, as it is one of economic ideologies.