Jose Antonio Kast
ABOUT JOSE ANTONIO KAST
Chilean lawyer and politician with far-right views. He has opposed abortion and same sex marriage. In the year 2019, he founded Chile's Republican Party. He first ran for president in the year 2017.
He earned a law degree from the Catholic University of Chile.
In the year 1989, he co-founded the law firm, Kast, Pinochet, De La Cuadra & Cia. Between the years 1995 and 2000, he served as a councilman in the municipality of Buin. He was also the director of a real estate company owned by his family in the 1990s.
He has nine children. His father Michael Kast was a member of the Nazi party.
In the year 2017, he ran for president, challenging Sebastián Piñera .