Conservative Cast Won Chile's Presidential Election On His Third Attempt
- 15.12.2025, 9:49
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His opponent was a communist.
A far-right politician, 59-year-old Jose Antonio Cast of the Republican Party has won the second round of Chile's presidential election. The electoral commission said on Sunday, December 14, after counting 83% of the votes, he was supported by about 59% of voters, German Wave reported.
His main rival - a member of the Communist Party of Chile and candidate of the ruling center-left alliance, 51-year-old Jeanette Jara - has already conceded defeat. She received about 41 percent of the vote and congratulated her opponent in a telephone conversation.
Cast will take the presidency on his third attempt. In his campaign, he has staked his position on tough measures against crime and illegal migration.
Kast's father was a Wehrmacht lieutenant and fled Germany
Kast's parents, Michael Kast Schindele and Olga Rist Hagspiel, are from Bavaria. The father was a Wehrmacht lieutenant and a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party who fled to Chile during the denazification of Germany in 1950.
In a speech after the first round, Kast declared, "We will rebuild our homeland." A father of nine children and a staunch Catholic, he has already pledged to deport hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants, mostly Venezuelans.
The first far-right president since Pinochet
Jose Antonio Cast will become Chile's first far-right president since the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Cast was born in Santiago, studied law at the local Catholic university and has been involved in politics for 30 years, the AFP news agency recalled. During his political career, he has campaigned in favor of banning abortion, as well as against emergency contraception, divorce, same-sex marriage and euthanasia, among other things.
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