The age of 35 was defeated the far-right candidate, José Antonio Kast, with a program focused on more social justice in a particularly unequal country.
Le Monde
Gabriel Boric has managed his bet. According to the Chile Electoral Service, the candidate of the left won, Sunday, December 19, the second round of the presidential election, a victory that his extreme right opponent, José Antonio Kast, officially recognized.
“I just talked to @Gabrielboric and congratulated him for his great triumph. He is today the elected president of Chile and deserves all our respect and constructive collaboration. Chile always passes first”, wrote on his Twitter account, Mr. Kast .
It is an overwhelming victory that the Left Coalition is recorded by the Communist Party in this unprecedented duel since the return to democracy in 1990 between two candidates for diametrically opposed society projects.
In the over 80% of the polling stations where the newsletters have been stripped, Boric, who, at age 35, had just the age to introduce themselves, has ten points ahead of Mr. Kast, an admirer of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet supported by the whole Chilean right, who had announced that in case of defeat, he might not recognize the result of the election if the gap between the two candidates was less than 50,000 votes.
Antonio Kast had arrived in the lead at the Tour (27.9% against 25.8%) by seducting in the upscale districts of Santiago and among the popular classes outside the capital by repeating that he was the candidate of “order, justice and security”.
Project of welfare state
A klaxon concert resonated in the streets of the capital immediately after Mr. Kast recognized his defeat. The outgoing President Sebastian Pinera congratulated in a video discussion the new elected state head who officially will take office on March 11.