Ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast elected Chile’s next president
by Tiago Rogero South America correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#725KA)
The son of a Nazi party member and an admirer of Pinochet, Kast built his campaign on a promise to expel tens of thousands of undocumented migrants
The ultra-conservative former congressman Jose Antonio Kast has been elected as Chile's next president.
With more than 99% of polling stations counted, Kast took 58.17% of the vote, against 41.83% for the leftist Jeannette Jara, a former labour minister under the current president, Gabriel Boric.
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