SANTIAGO, Chile — This Sunday, Chileans head to the polls in a general election to vote for a new president, Senate and Congress.

But four years after voting for leftwing former student leader Gabriel Boric to become the country's youngest ever president with a mandate to expand the welfare state in Chile, this race looks radically different.

Security, immigration and unemployment are top of the agenda for voters.

Three right-wing candidates are vying to join Communist Party politician Jeannette Jara, 51, the current frontrunner according to polls, in a likely runoff election to be held next month.

Jara , who served as labour minister in Boric's government and is a former student and union leader, is promising to gradually introduce a minimum income of $780 per month, as well as cas

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