The President of Chile, José Antonio Kast, voluntarily underwent a drug test and announced that he will promote a bill to make the test mandatory for all public officials and political leaders in the country.
The initiative is part of an Executive agenda aimed at strengthening transparency and control in the State, in a regional context marked by the advance of drug trafficking and organized crime, seeking to raise the demands on those who hold public office and recover citizen trust.
Kast performed a capillary analysis of narcotics at the Chilean Safety Association (ACHS), a procedure that can detect drug use over a longer period than traditional urine tests. As he explained, he decided to do so voluntarily to give a clear signal from the country's highest authority
.After undergoing the examination, the president maintained that those who hold public office must demonstrate that they are completely away from any link with drug trafficking. Along these lines, he stated that the fight against organized crime requires not only security policies, but also guarantees of integrity in the leadership
