Jose Antonio Kast

About

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. 

Before Fame

He earned a law degree from the Catholic University of Chile.

Trivia

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.

Family Life

He has nine children. His father Michael Kast was a member of the Nazi party.

Associated With

In the year 2017, he ran for president, challenging Sebastián Piñera.