The Chilean Right Gears Up for a Fight

The Chilean left is pinning their hopes on a unity candidate to carry the banner in November presidential election.

The center-right candidate, Evelyn Matthei , currently holds the overall presidential polling lead, with the populist right wing vote divided between traditional left-wing bogeyman José Antonio Kast of the Chilean Republican Party and rising star Johannes Kaiser of the National Libertarian Party .

In Chile the standard bearer for this novel right-wing movement is a politician with the striking Teutonic name of Johannes Maximilian Kaiser Barents-von Hohenhagen , a YouTuber and social media maverick turned politician.

Kaiser 's appeal is much less oriented around social conservatism than around opposition to the Chilean state apparatus.