Overview
- Jara centers her platform on dismantling criminal financing networks and on registering and regularizing undocumented migrants.
- Kast campaigns on a US$6 billion public spending cut and a security agenda he calls the Plan Implacable, including tougher penalties and high-security prisons.
- The Republican Party candidate also vows mass expulsions of more than 300,000 people in irregular status, a proposal critics say lacks operational and legal detail.
- Analysts describe a likely runoff between Kast and Jara on Dec. 14 if no candidate secures a first-round majority, noting that roughly a quarter of voters often decide on election day under compulsory voting.
- Final rallies underscored contrasting messages, with Jara closing in Maipú and Kast at Santiago’s Movistar Arena, while far-right candidate Johannes Kaiser ended his campaign with a promise to pardon security forces and was polling third before the Nov. 2 survey blackout.