The singer Mon Laferte expressed her support for the official presidential candidate Jeannette Jara, late on Sunday.
The artist sent a message on her social networks after the closing of tables and the beginning of the vote counting, CNN reported.
Through social networks, the artist wrote a brief message, in which she made her electoral preference known.
Let’s go Jara! 🇨🇱
— My Frank ( November 16, 2025
“Let’s go Jara,” Laferte wrote on his X account, and next to this phrase a Chilean flag.
The message caught attention, since on October 16, the artist had ruled out formal support for the former Minister of Labor.
“We have not formally talked about supporting a candidacy, I don’t know what that means. I have never supported a candidacy, and I think it is the first time in my life that I have a photograph with a politician,” he said in conversation with Radio ADN.
This, regarding a meeting between the two during the Ruidosa Fest 2025.
Later, the presidential candidate shared some photographs of the moment, thanking the singer “for the support” of her candidacy and “for wanting to be part of this very significant process.”
Other reactions
Regarding the electoral result, there were different reactions in the cultural world.
“This election is part of a global cultural battle, in which the extreme right has been taking advantage of us for a long time and ‘we didn’t see it coming’, because we believed that it was enough for us to believe that we are right,” filmmaker Luis R. Vera told The Counter.
“This is a battle of time, of generations, in a world that is increasingly illiterate and ignorant, victims of Tiktoker immediacy and lies turned into slogans,” he criticized.
Ernesto Orellana, vice president of the Sidarte union, also spoke in a personal capacity.
“Evidently the advanced triumph of the ultra-right puts Cultural Democracy at risk. But even more urgent is to make the entire social group of the country understand that Cultural Rights belong to everyone and we must protect them,” he stated.
“Beyond whoever leads the government, whoever does so must represent the interests of all sectors. And the cultural sector exists, it is large, and transversal. And it not only provides an important symbolic dimension for the cultural and artistic development of all regions, but also an important percentage of the economy to the country’s GDP (2.2%), and its legitimate demands should be heard to move forward and not go backwards.”
Mario Rojas, president of the National Union of Artists (UNA), also spoke.
“To begin with, this has not been decided yet. Perhaps it would be better to give an opinion after the second round: Sunday, December 14,” he said.
“As UNA we have designed a document where we clearly formulate the needs faced by people who make a living from art in Chile; along with highlighting the relevance of each of our unions in the construction of greater stability and productivity, which is common to any contemporary society. We are a multi-union with 20 organizations, which together bring together approximately 30 thousand artists whose objectives and, surely, ideological principles are diverse,” he stated.
“At the time, we delivered said document to each of the commands and promoted forums with representation of different points of view.”
For Rojas, “we are still in an election process that has not concluded. What’s more, we have a pending seminar that we had precisely called for this period where we intend to invite representatives of the commands of the candidates who will advance to the second round.”
Kast, “harmful”
“Kast’s alternative is harmful to culture, there will undoubtedly be a regression in public policies,” said Tehani Staiger, former president of the Association of Cultural Managers of Chile (AdCultura).
“”Now we will see the impact of not having robust and strategic policies. Our institutions are not very robust and therefore without needing Congress within the ministry they will be able to modify many programs.”
Staiger warned that organizations that receive financing through moderate competitiveness mechanisms (Paocc, for example) are the first that could be affected.
“The focus on human rights will undoubtedly disappear. They will probably concentrate on measures such as the cultural pass and incentives for the industry. It is also likely that the demand for co-financing and formalization policies, cultural trains and in general the logic of “bringing culture to the people” will be installed more strongly. Concepts such as the cultural democracy that is developing will also be slowed down.”
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