Chile

POLITICAL PARTY

Partido Republicano (PRCh)
in presidency and parliamentary seats
Chile

Kast and his PRCh rose in power in the 2025 elections. Kast won the presidential run-off election in December with 58.2% of the vote, becoming Chile's president-elect. Kast was inaugurated president in March 2026. In the 2025 parliamentary elections, held in November, the PRCh’s Change for Chile coalition came in second place behind the Unity for Chile coalition in both the National Congress and Senate, amassing the most seats of any single party in both houses. PRCh’s Change for Chile coalition won 42 of 155 total seats in the National Congress (31 of which were won by PRCh candidates) and 6 seats of 23 available seats in the Senate (5 of which were won by PRCh candidates). In 2021, PRCh (then known as PLR) belonged to a two-party coalition called the Christian Social Front, which won 15 of the 155 available seats (fourth place) in the Chamber of Deputies and 1 of the 27 available seats (fifth place) in the Senate. Kast lost to Gabriel Boric in the 2021 presidential election by a margin of 4.6 million votes to 3.6 million votes.
March 12, 2026
“A sense of homeland unites us. . .That is why I believe that those of us who are in the same sector will finally end up positioning ourselves to confront those who want to destroy our country.”
President of Chile, party founder, former member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) (2002–2018)
José Antonio Kast

MOST INFLUENTIAL PARTY MEMBER

José Antonio Kast
José Antonio Kast
“The debate is about the present and the future. And we have many things that unite us; a sense of homeland unites us. . .That is why I believe that those of us who are in the same sector will finally end up positioning ourselves to confront those who want to destroy our country.”
November 15, 2021
Elekes Andor, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

PAGE CITATIONS:

Isabel Debre and Nayara Batschke, "Landslide win for Kast gives Chile its most right-wing president in decades," AP News, December 14, 2025, apnews.com/article/chile-elections-kast-jara-president-boric-trump-e9ef32b53359f3152ee80d62c106c5f6.

Nayara Batschke, "Kast takes office as Chile marks its sharpest shift to the right since dictatorship," AP News, March 11, 2026, apnews.com/article/chile-kast-inauguration-new-administration-00d398c96e0ff25378838dc8831dcbe8.

“Results of the Election of Deputies,” Servel, November 17, 2025, accessed December 8, 2025, elecciones.servel.cl/.

“Senate Election Results,” Servel, November 17, 2025, accessed December 8, 2025, elecciones.servel.cl/.

"Chilean Senate 2021 General, IFES Election Guide, last updated August 2, 2023, accessed June 11, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3608/.

"Chile: Chamber of Deputies," November 21, 2021, IPU Parline, accessed June 11, 2025, data.ipu.org/parliament/CL/CL-LC01/election/CL-LC01-E20211121/.

Chilean Presidency 2021 Runoff, December 19, 2021, IFES Election Guide, last updated August 2, 2023, accessed June 11, 2025, https://www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3822/.

QUOTE CITATION:

CNN Chile, “Debate presidencial Anatel 2021,” www.youtube.com/live/hF-H0sIK_gU?si=oOYqVCftlItaQNL3, 15:12–15:42, trans. Francisco A. Philibert.

TO CITE:

"Partido Republicano (PRCh)," Great Replacement Parties, ChainofIdeasBook.com, [access date], www.chainofideasbook.com/country/CL.