Chilean far-right presidential candidate Johannes Kaiser defended the use of lethal force against criminals Thursday in an AFP interview, and said he would deport migrants with criminal records to El Salvador's brutal anti-gang prison.

Kaiser, 49, has tapped into widespread frustration among Chilean voters about crime and immigration.

In the last days of campaigning ahead of the November 16 first round election, he has narrowed the gap with the two frontrunners, Jeannette Jara, a communist representing a broad center-left coalition, and fellow far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast.

Kaiser, who shot to fame as a YouTuber, is seen as more extreme than Kast.

He has railed against feminists, migrants and critics of the country's late military dictator Augusto Pinochet.

In an interview on

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