<span style="color: #222222;">In Chile, the election for a new President will go into a second round on the 19th of December after none of the seven candidates managed to secure the necessary 50 percent needed to win outright.<br />''<br />''Far-right candidate José Antonio Kast will face left-wing former student leader Gabriel Boric in the run-off. The election is one of the most polarised in recent decades and comes after mass anti-government protests. Mr. Kast described it as a choice between liberty and communism.<br />''<br />''Mr. Boric, meanwhile, said, he was fighting for democracy, for inclusion, for justice.<br />''<br />''With 97 percent of the votes counted, Mr. Kast was in the lead with 27.94 percent, followed by Mr. Boric with 25.75 percent.<br />''<br />''Economist Franco Parisi, who lives in the United States and did not travel to Chile to campaign, won a surprise third place but only the candidates placed first and second will dispute the second round.</span><br />