Chile Inaugurates Jose Antonio Kast as New President
The 60-year-old assumed the presidency in the Hall of Honor, where outgoing President Gabriel Boric formally handed over the Piocha de O’Higgins, a traditional emblem of Chilean leadership, to Kast, as stated by reports.
Following the formal proceedings, Kast was scheduled to host foreign delegations for a luncheon at the Cerro Castillo Presidential Palace in nearby Vina del Mar, continuing Chilean inauguration customs. Later in the evening, he is expected to travel to Santiago and address the public from the balcony of La Moneda Palace.
The inauguration drew numerous international dignitaries, including Spain’s King Felipe VI, Argentine President Javier Milei, Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino, Honduran President Nasry Asfura, Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chavez, Paraguayan President Santiago Pena, and Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi, along with various foreign diplomats.
Kast, a lawyer from a German-descended family, has been a well-known figure on Chile’s far right for many years. His political journey began as a law student at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he joined the Gremial Movement founded by Jaime Guzman, a close ally of former military ruler Augusto Pinochet and one of the architects of Chile’s 1980 Constitution.
He later spent almost twenty years in the right-wing Independent Democratic Union (UDI) party, serving first as a municipal council member and then as a lawmaker from 2002 to 2018.
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