Chilean Left Divided After Judicial Controversy and Electoral Defeat

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Issue Jan 21-27 2026: Six weeks after the crushing defeat in the second round of the presidential election on December 14, 2025, at the hands of the far-right candidate José Antonio Kast (who won by a 16-percentage-point margin), the Chilean left has broken the fragile pragmatic unity it maintained around Gabriel Boric’s government and is now mired in recriminations and settling old scores.

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