By Fabian Cambero and Sarah Morland

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -After falling short in two previous presidential runs, Chilean candidate Jose Antonio Kast is now favored by analysts to win the country’s presidency in a runoff next month, a sign of how his far-right anti-immigrant views have gained a wave of new support amid fears about increased crime.

Kast, 59, was just behind frontrunner leftist Jeannette Jara in Sunday’s first-round presidential election but analysts broadly expect him to pick up most of the votes from three other right-wing candidates who fell short, some of whom endorsed him or appeared beside him as the results came out.

Kast lost to leftist President Gabriel Boric in 2021, a moment many polls showed his hardline policies were out of step with the electorate rattled by th

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