Voters going to polls in Chilean presidential election

Whoever wins is likely to have a slim mandate and be hemmed in by a divided congress

Electoral workers prepare a school to be a polling station in Santiago, Chile (Esteban Felix/AP/PA)

Chileans are going to the polls on Sunday to elect their next president following a polarising campaign between a free-market firebrand likened to Donald Trump and a millennial former student protest leader who pledged to tackle inequality.

Jose Antonio Kast, a lawmaker who has a history of defending Chile’s past military dictatorship, finished ahead in the first round of voting last month but failed to secure a majority of votes.