US EditionChile to vote for president as hard-right Kast tipped to win
Rising crime and immigration fears drive voters between Kast's hardline security stance and Jara's focus on wages and economic issues, with homicide rates up 140% in a decade.
- On Sunday, Chileans will vote in a presidential runoff between Jeannette Jara, who won the first round in November, and Jose Antonio Kast, a conservative veteran.
- Security concerns propelled the campaign after the Covid-19 pandemic and transnational criminal gangs from Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela heightened voter focus on crime and economy.
- On policy specifics, Kast has vowed a border wall, increased police firepower, and warned 337,000 undocumented foreigners to leave, while Jara has shifted to security and economic pledges.
- Polls predict a thumping Jose Antonio Kast victory after right-wing candidates won a first-round majority; if Kast wins, Chile will have its first hard-right leader since 1990, critics warn.
- Historically, Chile's 1973–1990 dictatorship maligned communists, a shadow affecting Jeannette Jara, while regional shifts to the right in Argentina, Bolivia, and Honduras frame Kast's likely victory, critics say.
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Some 15.7 million voters are called to elect this Sunday, December 14, between two presidential candidates located in the political antipodes: the ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast, representative of the right, and the communist Jeannette Jara, a leftist. Continue reading
Thirty-five years after the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, extreme right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast could win the presidential election in Chile on Sunday 14 December. Podcast analysis with Angeline Montoya, special envoy of the "World" in Chile.
A little less than a week after the second round of the presidential elections in Chile, the polls—which is forbidden to publish, but which a certain elite knows because they circulate under rope—show a clear advantage of the right-wing candidate, José Antonio Kast, over the left-wing candidate, Jeannette Jara (PC). Analysts agree that the Republican’s triumph is almost a fact. However, a series of recent errors in his campaign have put tension …
With a clear lead in opinion polls and a electorate calling for security, it is generally expected that the far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast will win the presidential election in Chile on Sunday (14th) and become the country's most conservative leader since the military dictatorship. Kast will compete against Jeannette Jara, the candidate of the [...] The post elections in Chile: far-right candidate José Antonio Kast will win the presidenti…
This Sunday, December 14, Chile will elect its next president, who will assume on March 11, 2026, after the four-year government of Gabriel Boric. And this Tuesday with Anatel’s debate, the moods were stronger than ever, especially on social networks where some celebrities have given their opinion on it, leaning for José Antonio Kast or Jeannette Jara. Also read: Daughter of Anita Alvarado generates reactions in networks after posing with her ne…
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