SANTIAGO ¨C 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 its military dictatorship in 1990.
Kast secured a commanding 58% of the vote in a runoff with leftist candidate Jeannette Jara, who won 42% and swiftly conceded.
Throughout his decadeslong political career, Kast has been a consistent right-wing hard-liner. He has proposed building border walls, deploying the military to high-crime areas, and deporting all migrants who are in the country illegally.
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