The formation of Kast, which was not in favor of reforming the Constitution drawn up through the dictatorship, can be accountable for main the preparation of a brand new textual content The Republican Party of the previous presidential candidate has received 35% of the votes within the elections to elect the members of the Constitutional CouncilKast has defended the legacy of Augusto Pinochet, though within the elections he misplaced towards the present president he tried to average his speech
The Chilean excessive proper has received the elections to the Constitutional Council that may lead the reform of the Magna Carta. The Republican Party of former presidential candidate José Antonio Kast has received 35% of the votes, in keeping with knowledge from the Chilean Electoral Service, and can present 22 of the 51 councilors who can be accountable for drafting a brand new Constitution within the the rest of the yr.
The result’s a heavy blow for the Chilean president, the leftist Gabriel Boric, simply over a yr after coming to energy. His left-wing coalition, Unity for Chile, has obtained 28% of the votes and 17 councillors; Therefore, it doesn’t attain the mandatory councilors (21) to have the best to veto within the means of drafting the Magna Carta. Null and clean votes have exceeded 20%.
Now, the celebration that by no means needed to vary the present textual content (drafted in 1980, through the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet) will paradoxically be accountable for main the drafting of a brand new one. At the tip of the yr it is going to be submitted to a plebiscite.
Who is the chief of the successful celebration? José Antonio Kast is 57 years outdated and has 9 youngsters and is a lawyer. He has defended the legacy of dictator Augusto Pinochet (who dominated the Latin American nation between 1973 and 1990). Two years in the past he assured that if the chief of the army regime had been alive, he would help him on the polls: “Pinochet would vote for me, it’s evident,” he affirmed.
In 2019, Kast based the Republican Party. In December 2021, he misplaced the presidential elections, towards the present president, as a candidate for the Christian Social Front (which introduced collectively his formation and the Christian Conservative Party). In the presidential marketing campaign, he tried to melt his speech to get out of Pinochet’s shadow and careworn that he didn’t help human rights violations.
Kast is the son of German dad and mom who emigrated to Chile in 1950. According to latest analysis, his father was a member of Hitler’s celebration, which he joined in 1942, which contradicts the model that Kast has all the time maintained that in World War II World his progenitor was only a recruit. When he was younger, Kast appeared in one of many advertisements for the Yes marketing campaign (for the continuation of the dictatorship) within the 1988 plebiscite that needed to resolve whether or not or not the Pinochet regime ought to stay.
Before creating the Republican Party, he was a member of the right-wing celebration Unión Demócrata Independiente, the place he consolidated himself within the discipline of politics. He turned a deputy in 2002 and was re-elected 3 times earlier than forming his celebration. Close to the Catholic Schoenstatt motion, “Order and progress” is one among his slogans.
He is thought for his conservative views: he has spoken out towards homosexual marriage and the best to abortion and is an outspoken anti-feminist. Before the 2021 presidential elections, he promised to dig a three-meter-deep ditch within the north of the nation to maintain migrants out; he later clarified that it was to battle towards drug trafficking.
In some respects he has been in comparison with former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former US President Donald Trump. Although in contrast to them, he did congratulate his rival after shedding the presidential elections
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