Massive celebrations in Chile for the triumph of the leftist Gabriel Boric | PHOTOS

The streets of Santiago exploded in a party this Sunday when the triumph of the young leftist was confirmed Gabriel Boric in the ballot in Chile: counted 99% of the votes, obtained 55.86% of the votes, more than 11 points over the extreme right Jose Antonio Kast.

Boric, 35, will become the youngest president in the history of Chile when he assumes power on March 11, replacing the conservative Sebastián Piñera.

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“Long live Chile shit!”, shouted young people waving the national flag in the streets of the capital after the first irreversible counts delivered by the Electoral Service (SERVEL), celebrating a victory that Kast recognized very quickly.

“I just spoke to @gabrielboric and congratulated him on his great success. From today he is the elected President of Chile and deserves all our respect and constructive collaboration. Chile is always first “, wrote closet, a 55-year-old lawyer, on his Twitter account.

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Born in the southern city of Punta Arenas, about 3,000 km south of Santago, Boric it imposed itself on the proposal for neoliberal order and continuity proposed by its rival Kast, with a program that promises to advance towards a welfare state.

Deputy and former student leader, he has the minimum age to run for president in Chile.

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He ran for the Presidency for the I Approve Dignity coalition, which brings together the Broad Front – of which he is a part – and the Communist Party. In this second round, he aroused the support of all the center-left parties.

Chilean presidential candidate Gabriel Boric, from the Approve Dignity party, gestures during the closing rally of his campaign in Santiago, Chile, on December 16, 2021. (MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP).

With no intention of leading a presidential candidacy until last year because he was considered “inexperienced”, in May, Daniel Jadue, candidate of the Communist Party and mayor of the Recoleta neighborhood, in the north of Santiago, was surprisingly imposed in the left primaries.

“We are new generations that enter politics with clean hands, warm hearts but cool heads”, he claimed Boric after casting his vote this Sunday in Punta Arenas, his hometown.

His proposal was in the antipodes of that of closet, contrary to abortion and equal marriage and that sought to maintain the pillars of the imposed neoliberal system imposed by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).

VIDEO | Celebration in Alameda with Santa Rosa, where the stage in which the President-elect Gabriel Boric will speak is located. Video via Twitter: @PensaPrensa pic.twitter.com/vVFlAeeFRj

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LOOK: Kast recognizes the victory of the leftist Gabriel Boric and congratulates him on his “great triumph” in Chile

Boric he wants to ensure a series of social rights that he will finance with a tax reform that seeks to collect an additional 5% of GDP during his government.

Win over turn

The call “Social outbreak” It triggered a process to draft a new Constitution to replace the one promulgated during the Pinochet dictatorship.

The Convention that drafts the new text, dominated by representatives of the left, should conclude its work in the middle of next year, under the gaze of the new president.

Never before since the return to democracy, in 1990, have candidates who do not belong to the old Concertación of center-left parties or to the right-wing Alliance clash in a ballot.

The campaign had a very polarized tone and with the display of fake news.

“This campaign has been faced by the political class in the worst way (…) with an image of polarization that is quite misleading,” political analyst Marcelo Mella, from the University of Santiago, told AFP.

In the first round closet he won with 27.9% of the votes against Boric (25.8%).

Still without buses they voted

Election day was marked by problems with public transportation in Santiago and various regions of this country of 19 million inhabitants.

On a southern spring day, with a maximum of 35 degrees Celsius, large crowds were registered at public transport stops, especially in the morning, when many went ahead to vote to avoid high temperatures and did not find buses.

In social networks and the media, voters denounced the lack of buses on a day in which the government had promised to increase the fleet.

The government, for its part, assured that there were no problems with transportation, but at the end of the afternoon the minister of the portfolio, Gloria Hutt, apologized.

More than 15 million citizens were called to vote to choose the successor of President Sebastián Piñera.

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