Gabriel Boric, presidential candidate in Chile, speaks with Don Francisco 2:01
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Gabriel Boric was born in 1986, he is a lawyer and is the candidate of the Pacto Approve Dignity coalition, and he was the youngest of all the candidates for the presidency of Chile in 2021.
Boric came to these elections as a candidate linked to the student movement (he was president of the Student Federation of the University of Chile).
Boric belongs to Convergencia Social, a left-wing political party linked to the Broad Front, and after the primary elections, in July 2021, he became the candidate of the Pacto Approve Dignity coalition.
Boric's proposals, in his own words, are born out of social struggle.
In addition, he explains that his programmatic axis is made up of decentralization, feminism, the climate crisis and what he calls a decent work system.
Leftist Gabriel Boric, 35, wins Chile's presidential election
In short, as he has said, his wish is for Chile to have a government that guarantees universal social rights to its citizens.
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In this endeavor he seeks more taxes on capital, reduced exemptions on profits and new taxes on wealth.
Despite the fact that his detractors associate him with other left-wing leaders on the continent, he has publicly condemned the regimes of Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Boric was infected with covid-19 shortly before the elections in the first round, forcing him to carry out campaign activities exclusively through digital means.
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This is how Boric arrived in the second round
In the first round, of the presidential elections, Gabriel Boric obtained 25.83%.
For his part, José Antonio Kast obtained 27.91% of the votes.
As none of these candidates obtained an absolute majority, they went on to the second round that was held this Sunday.
The first round was marked by a vote distributed in several candidates and by a participation (47.34%) lower than that registered in the 2020 plebiscite (50.9%), and behind were all the moderate options and the representatives of the traditional political parties in Chile.
With the reports of Fernando del Rincón and Germán Padinger of CNN.
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