San José.- The President of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, congratulated the Chilean people and celebrated the victory of the far-right José Antonio Kast in the second round of the presidential election held this Sunday in the South American country.
“I extend my most sincere congratulations to the Chilean people for the holding of the second round of the presidential elections in a peaceful, democratic and transparent manner. I also congratulate President-elect José Antonio Kast. I hope that we can strengthen friendship and bilateral relations for mutual progress with Chile,” he wrote on X.
Kast won this Sunday’s presidential elections in Chile, defeating by a wide margin the leftist Jeannette Jara, former Minister of Labor of the current president, Gabriel Boric, with more than 99% of the votes counted.
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According to preliminary data from the Electoral Service (Servel), the 59-year-old ultra-Catholic former deputy obtains 58.18% of the votes against 41.82% of the 51-year-old former Boric minister.
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