Now, I met Mateos Contreras (ph) waiting in line to vote, and he's a dentist. Now, if no candidate gets above 50%, we'll have a runoff next month, and that could be between Kast and Boric. Boric leads a broad coalition on the left that's allied to the Communist Party. But very early results point to two front-runners - Jose Antonio Kast, a far-right populist who's been compared with Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil - and until pretty recently, he was a fringe candidate - and the other is Gabriel Boric, who's just 35 and made his name as the leader of student protests a decade ago.
I mean, I should say we don't know the outcome yet. Why is this such a divisive election for the country? MARTIN: Now, you've been telling us of - what a polarized election this has been. And when the polling stations closed, there were some angry exchanges between officials and groups of people who had been unable to cast their vote in time.
Now, whether this is COVID - because of COVID restrictions slowing up the process or whether there really was a big turnout, we don't yet know. Chileans don't usually turn out for elections in massive numbers, but people told me they've never seen lines like this. I traveled around polling stations and saw very long lines of people standing patiently, anxiously and largely silently under the sun. REEVES: Oh, it's been a beautiful spring day in Santiago - blue Sky, no clouds. MARTIN: So could you just first bring us up to date? How has Election Day been going so far in Chile? To learn more, we're joined now by NPR's Philip Reeves, who is in Chile's capital, Santiago. Their front-runners include a far-right populist and a young leftist former student leader. They are selecting a new president in what's widely seen as the most polarized election in decades in that South American nation. Notice any bugs or missing polls? Send us an email.Millions of people have also been voting today in Chile.
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