Anti-immigration conservative Jose Antonio Kast elected President of Chile

[mountaineer]

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BREAKING:  The hard-right conservative anti-immigration politician @joseantoniokast  has been elected the new President of Chile.
He will rule the country for the next 4 years.
5:29 PM · Dec 14, 2025

Excuse the source, but this was the most up-to-date published news story I could find:

Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast wins Chile’s presidential election
Al Jazeera Staff (via Yahoo News
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM EST

Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast has won a runoff election to become Chile’s 38th president, ousting the centre-left government currently in power.

On Sunday, Kast prevailed in a preliminary tally, defeating former Labour Minister Jeannette Jara, a Communist Party politician who represented the governing centre-left coalition.

Jara and her coalition, Unity for Chile, conceded defeat shortly after the polls closed in the South American country. ...

In public opinion polls, voters also expressed frustration with recent spikes in crime and immigration, as well as a softening of Chile’s economy.

Kast, meanwhile, campaigned on the promise of change. He said he would address voter concerns by carrying out crackdowns on crime and immigration, including through a campaign of mass deportation, similar to what United States President Donald Trump has done in North America.  ...

[mountaineer]

Hard-right! Far-right! The sky is falling!!

Hard-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast wins Chile presidential election
Chilean voters elected the most right-wing president in 35 years of democracy on Sunday, as official results showed Jose Antonio Kast with a thumping 58 percent of votes and his rival conceding defeat. With more than ten million votes counted -- almost 70 percent of the total -- Kast had an unassailable lead over Jeannette Jara, a Communist Party member heading a broad leftist coalition.
 14/12/2025 - 23:59
By: FRANCE 24

Jose Antonio Kast won Chile's presidential election on Sunday, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to steer the country in its sharpest rightward shift since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990.

Kast secured 58.30% of the vote in a runoff with leftist candidate Jeanette Jara, who was at 41.70%, with more than 95% of the ballots counted.

"Democracy has spoken loud and clear," Jara said as she conceded. "I have communicated with Jose Antonio Kast and wished him success for the good of Chile."

Kast has been a consistent right-wing hardliner throughout his decades-long political career. He has proposed building border walls, deploying the military to high-crime areas, and deporting all migrants in the country illegally. ...

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What a false headline.

The guy is not anti-immigration any more than Trump is.

They are both anti-illegal immigration.

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He was running against a literal communist.  Chileans had enough of the Boric experiment and course corrected, that is all.