{"id":9018,"date":"2025-12-14T15:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/chile-headed-for-pivotal-runoff-elections-mercopress\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:06:39","slug":"chile-headed-for-pivotal-runoff-elections-mercopress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/chile-headed-for-pivotal-runoff-elections-mercopress\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile headed for pivotal runoff elections \u2014 MercoPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/108238\/100x80\/jara-katz-chile.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Chile headed for pivotal runoff elections<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content-data\">\n            <span>Saturday, <a title=\"Browse all articles for December 2025\" href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/2025\/12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December<\/a> <a title=\"Browse all articles for December 13th 2025\" href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/2025\/12\/13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">13th<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/2025\" title=\"Browse all articles for 2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025<\/a>  &#8211; 09:34 UTC<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<figure class=\"\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/108238\/0x0\/jara-katz-chile.jpg\" class=\"gallery\" title=\"Political analysts widely view the election as a contest between extremes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><br \/>\n            <span>Political analysts widely view the election as a contest between extremes<\/span>        <\/figure>\n<p>Chileans head to the polls on Sunday to elect their next president in a high-stakes runoff that pits the governing leftist coalition against the hard-right opposition. The election is highly polarized and will determine the direction of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/2025\/12\/13\/chile-headed-for-pivotal-runoff-elections?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_content=main&#038;utm_campaign=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chile headed for pivotal runoff elections Saturday, December 13th 2025 &#8211; 09:34 UTC Political analysts widely view the election as a contest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}