Gabriel Boric votes and trusts that “hope will beat fear” to “build a worthy Chile”

The left-wing deputy Gabriel Boric, one of the favorites in the presidential race in ChileHe said this Sunday that the project he heads is “collective” and that he trusts that “hope will win out over fear.”

“For me it is a historic moment, but this is not about a person. It is a collective project, it is about hope winning over fear, that we are capable of building a worthy Chile ”, said the former student leader after casting his vote in his native Punta Arenas, in the extreme south of the continent.

Boric, which represents the coalition made up of the Broad Front and the Communist Party, asked to go out en masse to vote so that there is a “tremendous” participation and assured that citizens “are the protagonists of this story.”

35 years old and the youngest candidate for La Moneda, Boric defines himself as an ecologist, feminist and regionalist and wants to expand the role of the State towards a welfare model similar to that of Europe, with more social rights.

Of the seven presidential candidates, Boric is the one who best embodies the generational change and the demands in favor of greater equality that emerged in the crisis of 2019, the most serious protests since the end of the military dictatorship (1973-1990).

The polls agree that no one will get 50% plus one of the votes necessary to be crowned in the first round and that Boric will fight in the December 19 ballot against the far-right José Antonio Kast, in what would be the most polarized elections since the return to democracy three decades ago.

The more than 15 million Chileans called to the polls will also completely renew the Chamber of Deputies and partially the Senate.

The composition of the new Parliament will be crucial for the governance of the country and analysts predict that no force will have a majority and that large pacts will be necessary to legislate.

“I have no doubt that we are going to reach an agreement, and I hope to lead those agreements,” said Boric, who will travel to Santiago to follow the results.

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