Landslide win for Kast gives Chile its most right-wing president in decades

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(15 Dec 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Santiago, Chile - 14 December 2025 1. Supporters of José Antonio Kast waving Chilean flags 2. Man holding photo of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet 3. Woman shouting in crowd UPSOUND (Spanish) "Long live Pinochet" 4. Wide of flag with image of Pinochet on 5. Various aerials of supporters ++MUTE++ 6. Supporters waving Chilean flags ++NIGHT SHOT++ 7. Kast and his wife María Pía Adriasola on stage waving ++NIGHT SHOT++ 8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Antonio Kast, Chile's president-elect: ++NIGHT SHOT++ "Because Chile has given us a clear mandate that allows no excuses. This mandate does not permit delays. Chile wants change, not continuity, and it has said so loud and clear on several occasions. And I want to tell you that yes, Chile will have real change, a real change that you will begin to perceive soon." 9. Supporters waving flags ++NIGHT SHOT++ 10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Antonio Kast, Chile's president-elect: ++NIGHT SHOT++ "Some say you have the easy solution for everything. No, it's very difficult, but it should be clarified that it's not something that happens overnight. We're going to have a tough year, very tough, because the finances are not in good shape. The country's finances are not in good shape." 11. Supporters waving flags ++NIGHT SHOT++ 12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Antonio Kast, Chile's president-elect: ++NIGHT SHOT++ "Do not ask us, those irregular immigrants, to spend all the social funds on you. We are a welcoming country. There is a very nice song that talks about how to welcome a friend when they are a foreigner. We want to welcome you, but by following the law. Those who do not comply with the law must leave. And if a foreign friend who is settled here breaks the law, we will also tell them they have to leave." 13. Close of man wearing hat reading (English): "Make Chile Great Again" ++NIGHT SHOT++ 14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Antonio Kast, Chile's president-elect: ++NIGHT SHOT++ "And those criminals, those delinquents, their lives are going to change. Their lives are going to change. We are going to search for them, we are going to find them, and we are going to judge them, and then we are going to lock them up." 15. Kast and Adriasola on stage waving flags ++NIGHT SHOT++ 16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Onoria Paez Rivera, Kast supporter: ++NIGHT SHOT++ "I'm so happy, because Chile needed a change. I am 66 years old, and since the time of communism I have never been able to be happy, I have never been able to go out, always with fear. I don't go anywhere because I'm terrified of going out because I didn't know if I was going to come back." 17. Supporters waving flags ++NIGHT SHOT++ STORYLINE: Chile’s ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast secured a stunning victory in the presidential election Sunday, 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. Kast won 58.2% of the votes as Chileans overwhelmingly embraced his pledge to crack down on increased crime, deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status and revive the sluggish economy of one of Latin America’s most stable and prosperous nations. Kast’s supporters erupted into cheers in the street as results trickled in, shouting his name and honking horns. His challenger, communist candidate Jeannette Jara, clinched 41.8% of the vote. Chileans are not alone in their demand for radical change. AP video shot by: Victor R. Caivano and Alexandre Plaza and Matias Delacroix Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ce48c20261434d559451599366f2a102