2025 Chilean general election
In the 2021 general elections Gabriel Boric defeated lawyer and politician José Antonio Kast, capitalizing on youth disenchantment, anger at former President Sebastian Pinera's term, and a slowing economy in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] Upon his victory, Boric added that Chile under his leadership "needs transparent accounts, an orderly economy, because otherwise reforms we do can wind up being reversed."[3] Since becoming President, Boric's government, where more than half of his cabinet are women,[4] has prioritized pension reform,[5] his proposals to nationalize lithium mining,[6] attempt to enact gun control measures,[7] expand LGBT rights in Chile,[8] progressive tax reforms,[9] and his government's efforts to approve a new Constitution.[11] Boric's low approval ratings, combined with the Republican Party's victory in the 2023 Constitutional Council elections, and the rising popularity of Evelyn Matthei and José Antonio Kast in opinion polls, has led analysts to note Kast may make "further gains in the 2024 regional elections and place him as the front-runner for the 2025 presidential and parliamentary ballot.In the National Congress, the 155 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected from 28 multi-member constituencies with between three and eight seats by open list proportional representation.