Former Chilean presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast was appointed this Tuesday president of the Political Network for Values (PNfV)an ultra-conservative global network of politicians and pro-life activists.
The former ultra-Catholic deputy, who ran for election twice without success -the last one last December-, will replace Katalin Novákformer Hungarian Family Minister and current president-elect of that country.
The PNfV is a transatlantic international network of right-wing and far-right politicians, celebrities and activists founded to promote ideas regarding the family and once morest abortion, the LGTBI + movement and sexual education.
It is made up of organizations such as the Spanish platform Citizen Go o la Political Ethics Action Networklinked to the National Action Party in Mexico.
From the PNfV they indicated that Kast has been a member of the network since 2015 and has been a member of the council since 2019, also made up of the former MEP and former Minister of the Interior of Spain Jaime Mayor Ear; the Colombian senator Maria del Rosario Guerraor the Mexican Rodrigo Ivan CortesPresident of the National Front for the Family.
“José Antonio Kast is a reference for politicians and civic activists in Ibero-America for his consistent performance over two decades in the defense and promotion of human dignity, life, family and fundamental freedoms”the organization wrote in a statement.
Kast won the first presidential round in Chile last November, leaving the former right-wing candidate out of the ballot in fourth place, Sebastian Sichel (Independent).
However, he lost in the second round once morest the frontrunner Gabriel Boric who, with 55.8 percent of the votes and only 35 years old, became the youngest and most voted President-elect in Chilean history.
A deputy for 16 years, Kast was a militant for two decades of the Independent Democratic Union -the largest formation of the three that make up the official coalition Chile Vamos- but in 2019 he founded the Republican Party, which in the November parliamentary elections won 14 deputies and a senator
