CHILE has the opportunity to become “the burial ground of neoliberalism” as primaries take place this weekend to select the left candidate in November’s presidential elections.

Daniel Jadue, an architect who is of Palestinian origin, has promised deep changes in the country if he is elected president in what could be an epoch-defining poll.

Mr Jadue, mayor of the the Recoleta district, has emerged as the shock frontrunner, with recent polls showing that he would win in all possible scenarios, including run-offs against his two closest rivals.