Chile elects far-right José Antonio Kast as next president

Many believe Kast will be the most right-wing president since Augusto Pinochet, who oversaw a 17-year dictatorship in Chile from 1973.

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Kast beat the governing left-wing coalition candidate Jeanette Jara decisively with more than 58% of the vote in his third attempt at running for president.

It marks the biggest shift to the right since the end of Chile's military dictatorship in 1990. Kast has openly praised Chile's former right-wing dictator, Augusto Pinochet.

In his first speech to supporters as president-elect, Kast said: "Chile will once again be free from crime, free from anguish, free from fear."

"Criminals, delinquents - their lives are going to change. We're going to look for them, find them, judge them and then we're going to lock them up," he added.