Landslide win for Kast gives Chile its most right-wing president in decades
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Chile’s ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast has secured a stunning victory in the presidential election, defeating the candidate of the center-left governing coalition and setting the stage for the country’s most right-wing government in 35 years of democracy.

As Chileans vote on Sunday, even detractors of ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast say the candidate whose radical ideas lost him the past two elections is likely to become the country’s next leader.

Kast’s commanding lead in the polls over his rival in the presidential runoff, communist Jeannette Jara, shows how the hard-liner agitating for mass deportations of immigrants has seized the mantle of the traditional right in a country that once defined its post-dictatorship democratic revival with a vow to contain such political forces.

  • xpey@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    On my way to voting right now. Odds are looking real close, Kast used to be on the lead but over the last few days he’s been losing a lot of support because of dumb shit he says on interviews and live debates (think of Trump, fucker doesn’t know what he’s proposing, pulls stats out of his ass, etc).

    Really sad to see that the other option (the one that won’t take away my rights) is such an insufferable pos too. Fixates way too much on personal attacks and never focuses on the important stuff that she actually has good ideas for. That has gotten her so much bad rep from both sides (Seriously, go watch a Jara v Kast debate, shit looks like high school).

    Hoping for a brighter tomorrow.

    EDIT: why do I even try man for fuck’s sake