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Hopes for Chile’s feminist future on the line as presidential elections loom

By France24
04 December 2021   |   7:40 am
On 19th December, Chile heads to the polls to choose a new president. The run-up to the elections have been deeply polarising, and the country's feminists fear that the unexpected frontrunner - far-right lawyer José Antonio Kast - could set women rights back by decades.

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