Gabriel Boric, presidential candidate in Chile, speaks with Don Francisco 2:01
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Gabriel Boric was born in 1986, studied law and was the candidate of the coalition Pact Approve Dignity, and was the youngest of all the candidates for the presidency of Chile in 2021. He won the second round in December and He will take over as president this Friday.
Boric outlined the 4 axes of his government in his first speech as president-elect
Boric came to the November 2021 elections as a candidate linked to the student movement (he was president of the Student Federation of the University of Chile).
Boric belongs to Social Convergence, a left-wing political party linked to the Broad Front, and after the primary elections, in July 2021, he became the candidate of the coalition Pact Approve Dignity.
Boric's proposal, according to his own words, is born from the 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 sum, 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 effort, he seeks more taxes on capital, reduction of exemptions on profits and new taxes on wealth.
Despite the fact that his detractors associate him with other leftist leaders on the continent, he has publicly condemned the regimes in Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Boric contracted covid-19 shortly before the first-round elections, forcing him to campaign exclusively digitally.
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This is how Boric got to 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 to the second round that was held this Sunday.
The first round was marked by a vote distributed among 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.
Boric then prevailed over Kast in the second round, with 55.87% of the votes, over 44.13% of his electoral opponent, and became, at 35 years old, the youngest elected president of Chile. .
With reports by Fernando del Rincón and Germán Padinger from CNN.
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