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Kast, running for president for the third time, decisively defeated the ruling left-wing coalition’s candidate Jeanette Jara, winning more than 58 percent of the vote.

This marks Chile’s biggest shift to the right since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990. Kast is a politician who openly praises Chile’s former right-wing dictator Augusto Pinochet.

In his first address to supporters after being elected, Kast said: “Chile will once again be free from crime, pain, and fear.”

“The lives of criminals and thugs will change. We will search for them, find them, prosecute them, and then put them in prison,” he added.