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Weekly Report - 12 February 2026 (WR-26-06)
CHILE: Kast risks upsetting parties by picking independents
Chile’s President-elect José Antonio Kast all but completed his government team this week, naming 39 of the 40 deputy ministers and 16 presidential delegates to the country’s regions after returning from a foreign trip to Europe where he met far-right allies. Political parties allied with Kast had hoped to pick up the majority of these second-string positions after feeling hard done by when Kast packed his ministerial cabinet last month with independents and technocrats. But once again, with the exception of a few plum political positions, Kast largely overlooked them in favour of independents.
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