Weekly Report - 13 August 2026 (WR-26-32)

During last year’s successful election campaign now-President José Antonio Kast promised to avoid culture wars to concentrate on three key issues: crime, the economy, and migration. Five months after taking office, he appears intent on sticking to that promise for now. Fresh from the passage of his ‘reconstruction and economic and social development’ bill - dubbed the mega reform - through congress, Kast presented a constitutional reform proposal on security, the main public concern. But perhaps the most eye-catching development this week was his decision during a local radio interview to distance his government from an anti-abortion motion sponsored by far-right parties in congress, as he seeks to avoid igniting culture wars.