José Antonio Kast

José Antonio Kast Rist (born 18 January 1966) is a Chilean lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2002 until 2018. He was a member of the Independent Democrat Union until 2016, and independent until 2019. 
Kast ran for president as an independent candidate in the 2017 election. He ran again in the 2021 Chilean general election, advancing to the second round, however lost in the run-off election to Gabriel Boric.
In 2019, he created the Chilean Republican Party.