"Kast was running for the third time and had built his campaign on the claim that rising migration over the past decade had fuelled a rise in crime. Two of his flagship promises were directly inspired by the policies of Donald Trump: the expulsion of about 330,000 undocumented migrants most of them Venezuelan and the construction of detention centres and 5-metre-high walls, electric fences, 3-metre-deep trenches and an increased military presence along the border."
"Kast is the most far-right leader Chile has elected a president since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990. Kast is the first post-dictatorship president to openly declare himself an admirer of Augusto Pinochet, under whose regime an estimated 40,000 people were tortured and more than 3,000 killed. Among the many tributes he has paid to Pinochet, Kast said during the 2017 presidential campaign: If [Pinochet] were alive, he would vote for me."
Jose Antonio Kast won Chile's presidential runoff with 58.16% of the vote, defeating leftist Jeannette Jara by more than two million votes. He is a staunch Catholic, father of nine, and the son of a Nazi party member, known for opposing abortion and same-sex marriage. Kast built his campaign on claims that rising migration increased crime and proposed expelling roughly 330,000 undocumented migrants and building detention centres, high walls, electric fences, deep trenches and increasing military border presence. Analysts view the result as part of a left-right swing, and note Kast is the most far-right president Chile has elected since 1990.
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