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Montevideo, February 20th 2026 - 17:03 UTC

Tag: Jose Antonio Kast

  • Monday, November 17th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Jara and Kast advance to Chile's presidential runoff

    Security issues boosted Kast's performance, while Jara fell below expectations

    Chile will head to a presidential runoff election on Dec. after leftist candidate Jeannette Jara edged conservative José Antonio Kast to secure the top two spots in Sunday's general election. The winner will succeed Gabriel Boric Font.

  • Tuesday, November 11th 2025 - 23:22 UTC

    No clear winner in Chile's last debate before Nov. 16 presidential elections

    Jara and Kast remained the most likely contenders to advance to the runoff

    The last debate between Chile's eight presidential candidates late on Monday had no clear winner, but there was some sort of consensus regarding a clear loser: Eduardo Artés of the Proletarian Action Communist Party.

  • Saturday, October 25th 2025 - 10:44 UTC

    Chilean elections anticipate a shift to the right and a Conservative president

    The two leading candidates in the Chilean presidential election, Jeanette Jara and Jose Antonio Kast, scheduled in three weeks-time November 16, have undergone significant falls in their vote intention according to an opinion poll from LatAm Pulse.

  • Monday, October 6th 2025 - 10:54 UTC

    Strong conservative comeback seems certain in Chile’s November presidential election

    Jeannette Jara, the candidate of the current ruling catch-all left wing coalition, and Jose Antonio Kast the hopeful most certain to win the run off according to current public opinion polls

    With less than a month and a half to Chile’s presidential election, public opinion polls are indicating that the incumbent candidate of the ruling left wing coalition, Jeantnette Jara is leading, but with only 27% of vote intention. However the main opposition hopeful, Jose Antonio Kast from the Conservative Party is very close with 25% vote intention.

  • Sunday, April 28th 2024 - 13:37 UTC

    Chile in mourning after murder of 3 Carabineros officers

    Boric decreed three days of national mourning and pledged to capture those responsible

    Three non-commissioned officers of Chile's Carabineros Police were killed early Saturday in an ambush in the town of Cañete, near the city of Concepción, in the Bío Bío region some 500 kilometers south of Santiago. The crime, which is still under investigation, shocked the entire country. President Gabriel Boric Font promised it would not go unpunished and other officials even called for the reinstatement of the death penalty.

  • Monday, November 13th 2023 - 14:03 UTC

    Chilean president has 59% disapproval; polls show 42% do not support new constitution

    Apparently with Chile hosting the PanAmerican Games, which are now over, optimism has turned into a 59% disapproval of Boric

    The assessment of Chilean president Gabriel Boric' performance as registered by pollster Cadem shows that support for the head of state, following several weeks of stabilization, has again fallen four points and now stands at 33%.

  • Tuesday, January 4th 2022 - 06:54 UTC

    The Battle for Boric's Soul

    In the first round, Boric allied with a heterogeneous group comprising the Communist Party, the so-called Broad Front, and various environmental, feminist, and LGBTQ groups.

    By Jorge Castañeda - Chile has long been something of a bellwether in Latin America. So, when Chilean voters elected the left-wing Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old former student leader, as president on Sunday, the rest of Latin America wanted to know: What does this mean for Chile – and for us?

  • Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

    The right enemy a major asset in politics

    However Macron’s nightmare is having to face Valérie Pécresse, the new leader of Les Républicains, who is reasonable enough to compete with Macron for the center right vote

    By Gwynne Dyer – The right enemy can be a major asset in politics, as Chilean voters have just demonstrated once again. All the opinion polls had the two presidential candidates neck and neck before the election, but a few days before the runoff vote it came out that the father of far-right candidate José Antonio Kast was a Nazi.

  • Monday, December 20th 2021 - 12:55 UTC

    Boric wins runoff to become Chile's youngest ever President

    Boric, backed by a leftist coalition, brought more centrist advisers onto his team and promised that any changes would be gradual and fiscally responsible.

    Leftwing Deputy Gabriel Boric (35) beat first-round frontrunner Conservative José Antonio Kast in Sunday's presidential runoff to become Chile's youngest-ever head of state. After more than 90% of the votes were counted, Boric led by 56% against Kast's 44%.

  • Wednesday, December 15th 2021 - 21:10 UTC

    Former Chilean President Bachelet announces she will vote for Boric

    “No one can be indifferent” to Sunday's outcome, Bachelet said

    Former Chile President and current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Wednesday admitted she would support leftwing candidate Gabriel Boric for the Dec. 19 presidential runoff against far-right candidate José Antonio Kast.