President Javier Milei will receive the elected President of Chile, José Antonio Kast, tomorrowas confirmed official sources.
After winning the second round of voting, where he beat the official candidate, the newly elected candidate’s first activity will be traveling to Buenos Aires Jeannette Jara for almost that 60% of the votes.
Javier Milei will meet José Antonio Kast at Casa Rosada
The reference from Republican Party He is trying to fulfill his desire to strengthen ties with the Argentine Republic and to maintain the relationship with the libertarian with whom he will meet this Tuesday at noon at the Casa Rosada.
“Another step for our region in the defense of life, liberty and private property. I am sure of it.” Let us work together to help America embrace the ideas of freedom and we can free ourselves from the oppressive yoke of 21st century socialism,” The president celebrated on his social networks.
This Tuesday, the Chilean will visit the White Hall of the Government Palace for the first time as elected president. Although the agenda is still in the draft phase, it could include an interview the Secretary for Economic Policy of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Jose Luis DazaChilean nationality.
As a gesture, Kast repeated the phrase popularized by Javier Milei to celebrate the election results. “Long live freedom, damn it.”The Chilean shouted.
Kast wins the elections in Chile and increases South America’s turn to the extreme right
Far right José Antonio Kast won confidently this Sunday in the second round of the Presidential elections in Chile and he was the first defender of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1989), who came to power after the return of democracy to the Andean country.
The ultra-liberal, Son of a family of German immigrants with a Nazi past, received 58.1% of the vote compared to 41.8% for the center-left coalition candidate. Jeannette Jarain a process with compulsory voting for the first time in a presidential election, in which the number of whites and zeros multiplied compared to the first round.
In his first speech as president-elect casta follower of the ultra-Catholic Schoenstatt sect, thanked God for his victory and asked him for wisdom and moderation in a government that will begin on March 11.
“Without God nothing would be possible. And that is something we can only recognize. For those of us believers, nothing happens in life that is not directly related to God. And I say that for me it is an honor, an enormous responsibility, the comprehensive mandate that we have received today,” he explained.
Kast appealed to the unity of the country, promised to govern “for all Chileans,” and thanked the right-wing libertarian for his support John Kaiser, He modeled himself on the traditional right and its leader Evelyn Mzathei, daughter of a general in the Pinochet junta, and appreciated the “courage” of his rival, for whom he demanded respect despite their differences.
He also repeated his repressive policy of containment irregular migration and violence, but he softened his tone and, above all, dampened the expectations he had raised during the election campaign by asking for patience because changes “cannot be achieved in a short time.”
Constructive resistance
The candidate of the center-left party, the communist Jeannette Jarapledged to continue fighting and working to defend the progressive advances and rights that Chileans have won in recent years and pledged to form a “proactive and demanding” opposition.
“We will be determined to protect what we have achieved,” emphasized the candidate, who urged the parties across the boardheterogeneous and “historic” coalition which she elected in the primaries to “preserve unity” and face the challenge of the far right.
“We will stick together and stand together, as we have always done,” said Jara, who called on his rival to recognize his victory, as did the President of the Republic himself, the progressive Gabriel Boric, who promised to give him “a country on the rise” through “an orderly transition” that will begin this Monday with a meeting between the two at La Moneda Palace.
The handover ceremony will take place on March 11th, on which day Kast will have already presented his cabinet.
South America turns to the right
As soon as the news broke, cast He received a flood of congratulations from leaders of the international far right and rejoiced at the victory in Chile, which sharpens South America’s turn to the extreme right in line with the postulates of United States President Donald Trump.
On behalf of the White House, the Secretary of State, Marcos Rubio, He said that under his leadership, Chile would advance common priorities such as strengthening public security, controlling illegal immigration and revitalizing bilateral trade relations, and expressed his willingness to work closely with the future Chilean executive.
The Argentine president was more exuberant, Javier Mieiwith whom Kast said “sharing dreams” – who expressed his “tremendous joy” at his “friend’s” victory and with whom he promised to work together so that “America embraces the ideas of freedom.”
Ecuador’s presidents also expressed their desire to work together and strengthen relations. Daniel Noboa from Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz, Paraguay, Santiago Peña and Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves.
Institutional, the Brazilian president, the progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvaemphasized the transparency and orderliness of the electoral process, wished him “good luck” in his future mandate and reiterated Brazil’s commitment to strengthening bilateral, economic and trade relations and maintaining South America as a “zone of peace.”
The contradictory note was issued by the Colombian president. Gustavo Petrowho warned that “the winds of death are coming” in America and called on the countries of the former Greater Colombia to “resist Bolívar with the sword raised.”
One of the first well-wishers from Europe was Kast, the leader of the Spanish party Vox. Santiago Abascal, He is chairman of the “Conservative Action Political Conference”, which unites right-wing extremist parties in the USA.
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