SANTIAGO-Chile's moderate right made gains in regional elections on Sunday while President Gabriel

SANTIAGO( Reuters)-Presidential primaries on Sunday for Chile's left-and right-leaning coalitions

Sebastian Sichel on the moderate right have been squeezed out by voters looking for more radical

SANTIAGO( Reuters)-Chile's constitutional assembly passed articles expanding environmental rights

Dec.... It also showed Kast attracting more moderate voters than before from defeated first-round

“ Chile always comes first.” Boric is to take office March 11 for a single four-year term

rejected a major overhaul to mining rights, including expanding Chilean state ownership

He is marginally behind in opinion polls. Although softly spoken, Kast promises a tough approach on crime and a streamlined state.... That chimes with some voters, who still admire the former dictator." If he were alive he would vote for me," he told local newspaper La Tercera in 2017 when campaigning then-unsuccessfully-to be president.... " I am a direct and frank person, but I am always respectful."( Reporting by Natalia Ramos; Additional reporting by Sarah Marsh in Berlin; Editing by Adam

model, although there are signs he has moderated since winning election last year. The former student

Ever since my native Chile regained its democracy in 1990 after 17 years of a brutal dictatorship