The Mexican Foreign Minister celebrates the triumph of the leftist Gabriel Boric in Chile

The Mexican Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, celebrated this Sunday the triumph of the leftist Gabriel Boric, who won the Presidency of Chile against the far-right José Antonio Kast.

“Great good news from Chile!!!”Ebrard wrote on his official Twitter account after the triumph of the Chilean candidate.

With 98.7% of the polls scrutinized, the 35-year-old former student leader prevailed with 55.8% of the votes and by more than 10 points of difference to the far right Jose Antonio Kast, who immediately acknowledged defeat.

In the first round of November 21, closet He had won with only 2 points of advantage, but this Sunday he recognized with just over half of the counted tables the victory of the former student leader, who will become in March 2022 the youngest president in the recent history of Chile.

After your victory, Boric promised to be “The president of Chile of all the Chilean men and women ”.

35-year-old MP and former student leader, Boric defines herself as an ecologist, feminist and regionalist and wants to expand the role of the State towards a welfare model similar to that of Europe.

He will be the most leftist president since the government of the overthrown Salvador Allende (1973-1990) and the first who is not part of the two great blocs that shared power since the return to democracy in 1990.

Among the main challenges of the future Government will be to channel the social crisis that continues to exist since the 2019 protests, to lead the implementation of the norms of the new Constitution and to face the economic challenges left by the pandemic.

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