José Antonio Kast, President of Chile (inaugurated on March 11, 2026)
José Antonio Kast Rist (born 28 November 1966 in Santiago) is the current President of Chile, having taken office on 11 March 2026. A conservative lawyer and politician, Kast is the founder of the Republican Party of Chile. He won the second round of the 2025 Chilean presidential election on 28 December 2025 and was inaugurated on 11 March 2026, with Francisco Pérez Mackenna serving as his foreign minister.
Kast trained as a lawyer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He served as a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies between 2002 and 2018, representing constituencies in the Santiago metropolitan region. Originally a member of the conservative Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI), he resigned in 2016 and ran as an independent in the 2017 presidential election, winning 7.93% of the first-round vote. In 2019 he founded the Republican Party of Chile (Partido Republicano), a right-wing party built on free-market, conservative, and anti-immigration principles.
In the 2021 presidential election, Kast topped the first round with 27.91% but was defeated in the December runoff by Gabriel Boric. He re-entered the 2025 presidential race and won the second-round runoff on 28 December 2025, returning Chile to right-wing leadership after four years under Boric.
Kast is married to Pía Adriasola and has nine children. His father Michael Kast was a German immigrant who settled in Chile, and his brother Miguel Kast was a prominent economist and minister under Augusto Pinochet. Kast is known for his conservative positions on immigration, law and order, family values, and free-market economic policy.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Antonio_Kast
Gabriel Boric, Former President of Chile (served March 11, 2022 – March 11, 2026)
Gabriel Boric Font (born 11 February 1986) served as President of Chile from 11 March 2022 to 11 March 2026, having been elected on 19 December 2021 with 55.9% of the vote. Boric studied at the Faculty of Law at the University of Chile and was president of the University of Chile Student Federation from 2011 to 2012. He became one of the leading figures of the 2011–2013 Chilean student protests. Boric was elected twice to the Chamber of Deputies representing the Magallanes and Antarctic district. He was the youngest president in Chile’s history at the time of his inauguration. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Boric
Sebastián Piñera, Former President of Chile (re-elected on Mar 11, 2018)
Born December 1, 1949, in Santiago. Piñera served two non-consecutive terms as president (2010–2014 and 2018–2022). He studied economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and earned a doctorate from Harvard University. More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Pi%C3%B1era
Michelle Bachelet, Former President of Chile (elected on Dec 15, 2013)
On 15 December 2013, Bachelet won a runoff election, regaining the presidency for a second term (2014–2018). She previously served from 2006 to 2010. Bachelet, a physician with studies in military strategy, served as Health Minister and Defense Minister under President Ricardo Lagos. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Bachelet