Chile's Communist Party (PC) candidate Iraci Hassler won Santiago
mayor's office with 38.8 percent of the votes cast in the subnational
elections.
Iraci Hassler will be the second woman to hold this office, which has not been headed by a communist since the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in 1990.
She was elected as a candidate in the citizen primaries convened by the Santiago's Constituent Mayoralty platform, which brought together over 50 social, political, and women's rights organizations.
