Overview
- Recent polls before Chile’s 14‑day publication blackout showed Kast ahead after consolidating backing from traditional right‑wing leaders.
- Jara closed with optimistic rallies and a platform promising stability, expanded social protections, stronger policing and tools to disrupt organized crime.
- Kast centered his finish on a hard‑line security and migration agenda, including his Plan Implacable, criminalizing irregular entry, mass expulsions and a $6 billion spending cut.
- Parisi finished third with about 19.7% and said he will vote blank, leaving a disenchanted, middle‑class bloc that analysts say could tilt the outcome.
- Servel detailed in‑person voting for registered expatriates at assigned consular sites, and Buenos Aires authorities will open a Retiro school with 12 tables for Chilean voters.