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Conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast defeated the candidate for Chile's left-wing ruling coalition, Communist Party member Jeannette Jara, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.verity.news/story/2025/chile-heads-to-presidential-runoff-jara-vs-kast-dec-">in a presidential runoff on Sunday</a>. He is due to take office on March 11.

Conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast defeated the candidate for Chile's left-wing ruling coalition, Communist Party member Jeannette Jara, in a presidential runoff on Sunday. He is due to take office on March 11.

Kast secured 58.2% of the vote, against 41.8% for Jara, marking the second-largest electoral win since Chile's return to democracy in 1990. Voter turnout was at 85.1%, with the president-elect winning in all 16 regions of the country, including the left-wing strongholds of the Metropolitan Region and Valparaíso.

Kast secured 58.2% of the vote, against 41.8% for Jara, marking the second-largest electoral win since Chile's return to democracy in 1990. Voter turnout was at 85.1%, with the president-elect winning in all 16 regions of the country, including the left-wing strongholds of the Metropolitan Region and Valparaíso.

Kast campaigned on a tough-on-crime and immigration control agenda, promising to deploy the military to high-crime areas and build border walls and detention centers, as a surge in violence in one Latin America's safest countries emerged as a central electoral concern.

Kast campaigned on a tough-on-crime and immigration control agenda, promising to deploy the military to high-crime areas and build border walls and detention centers, as a surge in violence in one Latin America's safest countries emerged as a central electoral concern.

Once in office, Kast will face demands for quick results while dealing with a fragmented Congress in which right-wing parties are two seats short of a majority in the 155-member lower house and tied with leftist groups in the Senate.

Once in office, Kast will face demands for quick results while dealing with a fragmented Congress in which right-wing parties are two seats short of a majority in the 155-member lower house and tied with leftist groups in the Senate.

He is only the second right-wing politician, following the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.verity.news/story/2024/former-chilean-pres-piera-dies-in-helicopter-crash">late, two-term former President Sebastián Piñera</a>, and the first supporter of the country's former leader Gen. Augusto Pinochet to win a presidential election since the return to democracy.

He is only the second right-wing politician, following the late, two-term former President Sebastián Piñera, and the first supporter of the country's former leader Gen. Augusto Pinochet to win a presidential election since the return to democracy.

This result is the latest in a trend of right-wing electoral successes across Latin America, including the reelection of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.verity.news/story/2025/noboa-wins-ecuador-election-by-landslide-amid-fraud-claims">Ecuador's Daniel Noboa</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.verity.news/story/2024/el-salvadors-bukele-claims-big-election-victory">El Salvador's Nayib Bukele</a>, the victory of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.verity.news/story/2025/mileis-party-wins-in-argentina-midterm-elections">Javier Milei's party in Argentina's midterm elections</a> and the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.verity.news/story/2025/rodrigo-paz-wins-bolivia-presidential-election-with-">end of two decades of socialist rule in Bolivia</a>.

This result is the latest in a trend of right-wing electoral successes across Latin America, including the reelection of Ecuador's Daniel Noboa and El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, the victory of Javier Milei's party in Argentina's midterm elections and the end of two decades of socialist rule in Bolivia.

Kast is a far-right Pinochet supporter who never backtracked on campaigning for the dictator's continuity during his youth — actually reaffirming his support decades later — and who wants to implement neoliberal mega-cuts and adopt a heavy hand against immigrants. It's disgraceful that Chilean voters elected such an individual to lead the country all because Gabriel Boric betrayed his supporters and failed to deliver on his electoral promises, handing power to fascism on a silver platter.

Kast is a far-right Pinochet supporter who never backtracked on campaigning for the dictator's continuity during his youth — actually reaffirming his support decades later — and who wants to implement neoliberal mega-cuts and adopt a heavy hand against immigrants. It's disgraceful that Chilean voters elected such an individual to lead the country all because Gabriel Boric betrayed his supporters and failed to deliver on his electoral promises, handing power to fascism on a silver platter.

Left narrative

For four years, Gabriel Boric's communism only brought mediocre growth, high unemployment and rising crime to Chile. It's no wonder that voters in the country have joined the right-wing trend sweeping Latin America, delivering a landslide rejection of communism. Once people live in failed leftist experiments that breed violence and decline, they realize the importance of fiscal stability, economic growth, safer streets and border security.

For four years, Gabriel Boric's communism only brought mediocre growth, high unemployment and rising crime to Chile. It's no wonder that voters in the country have joined the right-wing trend sweeping Latin America, delivering a landslide rejection of communism. Once people live in failed leftist experiments that breed violence and decline, they realize the importance of fiscal stability, economic growth, safer streets and border security.

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