Chile’s rightwing president José Antonio Kast is attempting to relaunch his presidency after just three months, as the global energy shock and stumbles on his flagship security pledge dashed his shortlived honeymoon.
Kast, a conservative hardliner, defeated Chile’s mainstream parties in last year’s elections with a pledge to lead an “emergency government” that would quickly tackle an unprecedented wave of organised crime, and reverse a structural economic slowdown.
But his approval rating tumbled below 40 per cent just weeks after taking office in March, when he declined to use fiscal resources to cushion a jump in fuel prices due to the Iran war. Prices at the pump soared as much as 60 per cent in Chile, which imports almost all its oil.
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