Chilean President Gabriel Boric, a progressive, promised to facilitate the transfer of power on March 11 to the far-right Jose Antonio Kast. I have confirmed that he will meet with the president-elect this Monday at La Moneda Palace to hand over “a country on the move.” before us, which are not personal legacies, neither mine nor those of previous presidents, but rather the legacies of all Chileans who work to build a better country for themselves, their families, and the entire community,” the incumbent president stated.

Boric also highlighted that the results were only known A couple of hours after the polls closed, “with certainty and without question,” something that “is not by chance, but decades of work.”

“I want you to know that Chile is proud of its republican traditions, which we must cultivate and cherish, and in my conversation with the president-elect, I conveyed to him that not only I, but all my collaborators, will be committed to that,” he explained.

“The Chilean flag embraces us all; we are part of the same country and the same future, and Chile can never be built if it is thought that it can be done at the expense of someone,” he emphasized.

“Democracy today and always. Long live Chile and long live its people,” the Chilean president concluded his speech.

Kast won the Chilean presidential election this Sunday, defeating leftist Jeannette Jara, Boric's former Minister of Labor, by a wide margin, with more than 99% of the votes counted.

According to preliminary data from the Electoral Service (Servel), the 59-year-old ultra-Catholic former deputy obtained 58.18% of the votes compared to 41%82% for the former minister of Gabriel Boric, 51.

The founder of the Republican Party won in all 16 regions of the country, including left-wing strongholds like Valparaiso and the Metropolitan Region, which houses the capital, and swept the mining areas of the north and the agricultural areas of the south.