Overview
- About 16 million citizens must vote or face fines, a sharp change from the high abstention seen in 2021.
- Polls put Jeannette Jara ahead with José Antonio Kast her most likely rival, and surveys suggest she would trail a united right in a Dec. 14 runoff.
- Jara campaigns on higher minimum wages, stronger labor rights, police modernization and new prisons, and a bigger role for Codelco in lithium.
- Kast centers immigration and security with mass deportations and maximum-security prisons, while libertarian Johannes Kaiser shows a late bump with border closures and deep state cuts.
- All 155 lower-house seats and 23 of 50 Senate seats are also on the ballot, creating the possibility of right-wing control of Congress and four-sevenths majorities for constitutional changes as mining groups press for faster environmental permits.