Imagine waking up from a coma and seeing that Marjorie Taylor Greene is being called a RINO. You would think you were in a Twilight Zone episode.

7/ To sum up, there will be a runoff for the presidency, and Chile is likely to turn from the millennial left of Boric to the pretty hard right of Kast. But there have been plenty of election surprises in Latin America recently, so we will see.

6/ Note that this will be the first presidential election since 2012 with compulsory voting. Chile used to have compulsory voting, then got rid of it, then adopted it again.
www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...

5/ The Chamber of Deputies and almost half the Senate are also up for election. Expect a fragmented Congress where right-of-center parties probably hold a majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
www.as-coa.org/articles/exp...

4/ Behind Kast are other conservatives. Johannes Kaiser is the libertarian Milei figure in the race. Evelyn Matthei is the more traditional conservative in the race. She’s experienced, but also her campaign produced one of the most cringy ads I’ve ever seen. 🤦‍♂️

3/ José Antonio Kast is polling second behind Jara, and is the likely winner of a runoff. He has campaigned on vilifying migrants, calling immigration an invasion, and proposing deportations and building barriers on the border. @tomphillips.bsky.social reports:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

2/ For the presidency, Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party holds a very narrow lead in the polls for the 1st round. But the most likely outcome is for Jara to lose a runoff against one of the conservative candidates.

It was always a sub-par case that quickly crumbled when the jurors saw what a bunch of baloney it was.