US EditionChile elects Jose Antonio Kast, deepening regional shift to law-and-order politics
José Antonio Kast won with 58.16% amid a historic 85.4% turnout driven by compulsory voting, promising a government focused on order, security, and stricter migration control.
- On December 14, Jos� Antonio Kast, president-elect, secured a decisive win in Chile's runoff with 58.16% to 41.84% and 99.97% counted, leading all 16 regions.
- Driven by voters' concerns about rising crime and migration, Kast campaigned on cracking down on illegal immigration and organised crime while pledging economic revival, consolidating right-wing votes.
- His platform includes detention centres, five-metre-high walls, electric fences, three-metre-deep trenches, and Kast ordered roughly 330,000 undocumented migrants to leave before March 11 or face expulsion, pledging 100,000 additional prison spaces.
- Gabriel Boric called to congratulate and invited Kast to a transition meeting Monday at La Moneda, but Chile's factionalised Congress will force Kast to bargain with opposition parties.
- Regionally, analysts note Kast's victory will boost right-wing movements in Latin America and he pledged $6bn in planned public spending cuts within 18 months, though economists have questioned this.
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