US EditionChile elects Jose Antonio Kast, deepening regional shift to law-and-order politics
Kast’s victory reflects voter fears over crime and migration, winning 59% of the vote and signaling a strong rightward shift in Chilean and regional politics.
- On Sunday, José Antonio Kast won the presidency, defeating left-wing Jeannette Jara as media reported 83.4% of votes counted, after arriving to vote in Paine, Chile.
- Amid concerns about crime and migration, Kast campaigned on mass expulsions, criminalizing migration, and maximum-security prisons, building on his support for General Augusto Pinochet's continuity in 1988.
- With ballots tallied, media reported Kast with 83.4% of votes and winning all 16 regions, while Jara's camp said she conceded by phone as 83.4% was counted.
- Kast will govern without a clear congressional majority as the right and far-right hold 76 out of 155 seats and the Senate is tied with the left-wing bloc.
- Looking toward the handover, Kast will receive the presidential sash on March 11 from Gabriel Boric, a father of nine and devout Catholic, traits highlighted alongside his political rise.
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Chile’s Runoff Landslide Hands José Antonio Kast the Presidency
Key Points • José Antonio Kast won the presidency with 58.16%, defeating Jeannette Jara’s 41.84%. • Compulsory voting drove high participation and gave the outcome unusual weight. • A split Congress will decide how quickly tough promises become durable policy. Chile has elected José Antonio Kast as its next president. He beat Jeannette Jara by […]
Conservative Wins Resoundingly in Chile’s Presidential Election
José Antonio Kast, a conservative candidate, was elected Chile’s president on Sunday, a sharp rightward swing for a country where voters have grown deeply concerned about security and illegal immigration. Mr. Kast, 59, a father of nine with ideological roots in conservative Roman Catholicism and economic neoliberalism, had campaigned on a tough-on-crime platform with echoes of President Trump’s political approach, promising to deport undocumente…
Chile's new elected president, extreme right-wing leader José Antonio Kast, promised on Sunday to "restore respect for the law" in the country he presents as being undermined by insecurity. ...
José Antonio Kast won the presidential elections in Chile on Sunday, taking advantage of the fears of voters related to the increase in crime and immigration and recording the most categorical turn towards the right of the election from the end of the dictatorship...
The left-wing Jeanette Jara has admitted defeat in Chile's election, which ended in victory for José Antonio Kast.
The ultra-conservative leader was elected this Sunday, December 14 at the head of this South American country with an anti-immigration program.
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