US EditionRight-Wing José Kast Elected New President of Chile
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The outcome of the election confirms a profound shift in Chile's political coordinate system. José Antonio Kast has become a president for the first time since the end of military rule, who has never clearly distanced himself from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
The ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast has imposed 58% of the preferences in the ballot for the presidential elections of Chile and is the new elected president
Conservative politician José Antonio Kast, considered Chile's most right-wing head of state since the end of military dictatorship in 1990, won the presidential election in Chile on Sunday.
Jose Antonio Kast is elected president with nearly 58% of the vote. The challenges of this conservative who promises to the Chileans the total closure of the borders and a tax adjustment.
The ultra-Catholic lawyer and former deputy José Antonio Kast was elected as the new president of Chile, reaffirming the wave of far-right leaders that governs part of the world. He also became the first Pinochetist since the return to democracy to power in Chile.
On a quiet new election day, Chileans have come to the polls this Sunday to elect the president who will govern them starting in March, when Gabriel Boric reminded his successor that the elected president “should be of all Chileans.” The opposition candidate, right-wing José Antonio Kast, on receiving the message, assured that, as his political career as a municipal councillor and deputy demonstrates, he will never close the doors to his opponen…
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