Overview
- Chile’s runoff field locked in after a tight first round, with Jeannette Jara and José Antonio Kast now competing for Franco Parisi’s roughly 19.7% as Parisi withholds any endorsement.
- Post‑vote, Kast consolidated right‑wing backing from Johannes Kaiser and Evelyn Matthei, traveled to La Araucanía, adopted a new slogan and named Martín Arrau campaign chief, while Jara targeted lower‑income communes and sharpened her anti‑crime pitch.
- The Valencian judge probing the deadly 29 Oct 2024 DANA set key witness dates, summoning senior officials José Manuel Cuenca on Nov 26 and Jorge Suárez on Dec 4, and ordered additional records tied to crisis communications and timelines.
- Spain’s Anticorruption Prosecutor sought 24 years for José Luis Ábalos and 19 years and six months for Koldo García in the masks case and asked the Supreme Court judge to revisit their pretrial liberty measures under a formal hearing.
- In Argentina’s ANDIS probe, businessman Miguel Ángel Calvete refused to testify at Comodoro Py as prosecutors detail an alleged contracting scheme; his daughter resigned after a US$700,000 seizure, and published chats cited by investigators include references they say indicate payoff arrangements.