Confirmed Presidential Candidates for the 2025 Elections in Chile

On Sunday, November 16, 2025, Chile will hold presidential elections to find a successor to President Gabriel Boric. A few months earlier, on June 29, primary elections were held for the Unidad para Chile coalition, which comprises the political parties supporting Boric’s leftist government; the Communist Party candidate, Jeannette Jara, emerged victorious. The official candidate will face off against representatives from the right and far-right, who will directly appear in the first round.

This list of potential candidates includes over 200 independent aspirants gathering the more than 35,000 endorsements required by the Electoral Service of Chile (Servel)—the entity managing the electoral processes in the South American country—to legalize their candidacies. Among these candidates are former presidential aspirants Eduardo Artés, Marco Enríquez-Ominami, and Tomás Jocelyn-Holt; sports leader Harold Mayne-Nicholls; far-right YouTuber Pedro Pool; and tarot reader Zita Pessagno, among others.

The Officialist Candidate

Center-left and leftist parties backing Boric’s government have organized a single primary to determine their representative. The presidential candidates for this process included Carolina Tohá from the PPD, from the center-left; Gonzalo Winter from the Frente Amplio, the president’s party; Jeannette Jara from the Communist Party; and Jaime Mulet from the Green Social Regionalist Federation (FRVS). Jara emerged as the winner and is now the sole candidate from the leftist officialist bloc.

Definitions in Traditional Right and Center

The main traditional right-wing parties opposing the current government have confirmed their candidate. Evelyn Matthei will compete with the support of RN, UDI, and Evópoli. The candidate has decided to go directly to the first round due to the far-right representatives’ refusal to participate in a primary. From the center, the candidacy of Ximena Rincón from the centrist party Demócratas has emerged as an alternative. Amarillos por Chile, another party inspired by the ideas of the defunct Concertación, has chosen to support Matthei.

Disputes in the Far Right

The leader of the Republican Party, José Antonio Kast, has confirmed he will go directly to the first round in November. Kast, who emerged as the primary representative of the Chilean far-right in the 2021 elections, has found competitors for his run for La Moneda and for the hegemony in his sector. Johannes Kaiser from the Libertarian National Party aims to reach the ballot in November with an even more radical discourse than that of the former UDI deputy. Joining Kast and Kaiser will be the Christian Social Party, an ultraconservative group linked to evangelical churches. The representative of this party will be Francesca Muñoz.

Candidates from Other Sectors

Political parties that are not aligned with any of the major political blocs have also announced their candidates. The Christian Democracy party, distanced from its traditional center-left allies, had nominated Alberto Undurraga but is now without a candidate following his withdrawal; the populist People’s Party (PDG) will once again present the candidacy of Franco Parisi; and the Green Ecologist Party has announced the candidacy of Félix González. They are joined by several independents who have started gathering signatures to formalize their candidacies, including sports leader Harold Mayne-Nicholls; filmmaker Marco Enríquez-Ominami; and professor Eduardo Artés.