Boric quotes Allende to close his first committed and very personal speech

The new president of Chile, Gabriel Boricclosed this Friday his first speech from the balcony of the Palacio de la Moneda with a heartfelt tribute to former President Salvador Allende, reproducing the mythical words he spoke in 1973 inviting all Chileans to “open the great malls” and “go free”

“As Salvador Allende predicted almost fifty years ago, we are again compatriots opening the great malls through which free men, free men and women pass, to build a better society”he said in the midst of a great ovation from the thousands of people who spit on him in the Plaza de la Constitución.

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“We continue, long live Chile”, grite borik before the enthusiasm of the crowd and his own emotion before receiving his partner, Irina Karamanos, on the balcony, and sharing with her the culmination of a speech in which he left aside the institutionalization that characterized the solemn act of change of command in the Congress, in Valparaíso.

The day in La Moneda began with a ride around the surrounding area in an open car, an affectionate greeting to the thousands of people waiting behind the fences, the formal greeting to the Guard and the entrance to the courtyard of the cannons.

Later, from a balcony loaded with symbolism, and after saluting the statues of Allende inside and outside the Palace where the former president committed suicide during the coup by General Augusto Pinochet (1973), the new president outlined his program , focused on the recovery of rights, reparation and social justice.

borik He did not avoid any of the thorny issues, he appealed to minorities and the defense of rights, to ecology, to unity, to dignity, to the different Chilean peoples, to education for all, to dialogue as a way to find a solution. of conflicts, both inside and outside the borders.

And he urged all Chilean men and women, both supporters and detractors, to join together in the task of refounding Chile and take advantage of the opportunity to become an example because “The eyes of the world are watching us.”

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