Right Wins Chile Election on Mass Deportation Platform
The Right has won the Presidential election in Chile, with conservative Jose Antonio Kast defeating his communist rival on a platform of cracking down on crime and deporting hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. The Telegraph has more.
Chile elected its most Right-wing President in 35 years of democracy on Sunday as conservative Jose Antonio Kast defeated his communist rival.
Kast won 58.2% of the vote as Chileans overwhelmingly embraced his pledge to crack down on increased crime, deport hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants and revive the sluggish economy.
Mr Kast, the son of a Nazi party member who fled to Chile after the Second World War, is a divisive figure who has repeatedly defended the bloody dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
The father-of-nine defeated communist candidate Jeannette Jara, who took 41.8% of the vote.
She called Kast to concede the election and congratulate him on his successful campaign after his lead became irreversible.
Mr Kast’s supporters erupted into cheers in the street, shouting his name and honking horns, some wore red caps with ‘Make Chile Great Again’ written on it.
The victory is the latest win for the resurgent Right in Latin America, following Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele and Argentina’s Javier Milei. In Bolivia, centrist Rodrigo Paz was elected in October, ending almost two decades of socialist rule.
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It seems that everywhere the (Far-Right, racist) locals want their Country back.
How dare they!
Not in the UK of course. The ‘Far Right’ (Reform) might win the election but won’t have enough seats to do much (not that they would do much if they did).
The UK-EU elite want to Muslimify, Africanise and Indianise this country right out of existence.
” . . . a divisive figure”
Yawn.
And that’s why as a ‘conservative’, I no longer read the Telegraph.
Yes, interesting that they never refer to Obama or Merkel as divisive figures … yet look at their legacy.
It’s such a lazy, pathetic slur.
And as you say, I find all Lefty luvvies divisive; Obama, Merkel, Mandela, Macron, Blair, Brown, Stürmer, Turdeau, Horse-face . . .
It’s a common thread of the Lefties, inverting cause and effect. The response to the divisions they have created are then blamed for causing the divisions.
Farage is dividing Britain, but his success is the result of a divided Britain: ditto Trump and divided US.
Yup …. they don’t seem to understand that “divisive” takes two sides who don’t agree.
So they are both divisive, or neither are.
Mr Kast, the son of a Nazi party member who fled to Chile after the Second World War, is a divisive figure who has repeatedly defended the bloody dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
I guess better the son of a socialist than a fully fledged card-carrying socialist, no? What is the Torygraph coming to?
Defended Pinochet now, did he? And do they object similarly to those who have defended Guevara, Castro or Chavez?
I wss told by a Chilean who had lived through it and was by no means a Pinochet supporter that opponents of the regime were safe so long as they kept quiet in public. Tghey could express themselves at home, in proivate conversations and even in public places so long as they did not make it a campaign or speech issue.
He told me many of those who disappeared had been warned off but ignored the warning.
I do not agree with governments or other parties using violence other than against those who have broken the normal laws of a country. I do think context matters. We could compare the treatment of people in Britain who speak in ways and express views the ruling class does not agree with. I accept no one has yet been disappeared in Britain (other than Dr Kelly) but they have been imprisoned, had careers destroyed, lost businesses and families as a resuilt of their speech.
There can be little doubt that the loss of openness in Chile did yield a better country for the later socialist governments to damage.
“Mr Kast, the son of a Nazi party member who fled to Chile after the Second World War, is a divisive figure…..”
I look forward to the DT describing Red Ed – tipped to be the next PM – as “the son of a Polish Communist who fled to the UK during the second World War, is a divisive figure …..”
Funny how the slurs only work one way ……