According to foreign media reports, the Chilean Electoral Commission announced on December 19 (Sunday) that 99.77% of the votes counted showed that in the second round of voting in the presidential election held that day, the left-wing political party alliance “approve of dignity” candidate Gaff Gabriel Boric was elected the new president of Chile.
Boric took a photo with supporters at the polling station
Among the votes counted, Boric received 55.86% of the votes, and Jose Antonio Kast, the presidential candidate of the right-wing party alliance “Christian Social Front”, got 44.14% of the votes. Custer delivered a speech after learning of the election results, acknowledging his defeat and congratulating Boric on his election.
According to relevant Chilean laws, the presidential candidate who received more than 50% of the votes in the first round of voting will directly win. If no candidate gets more than 50% of the votes in the first round of voting, the two candidates with the most votes will enter the second round. Voting, whoever gets more votes is elected president. In the first round of voting in the presidential election held on November 21, no candidate received more than 50% of the required votes. Castor, who received the highest number of votes, and Boric, who followed closely, entered the second round of competition. The president of Chile has a 4-year term and cannot be re-elected.
Boric, 35, will take office on March 11 next year, when he will become the youngest president in Chile’s history. Boric has served as a leader of the student movement and a member of the House of Representatives. His campaign proposals include changing the Chilean neoliberal development model, reforming the tax system, abolishing the pension system managed by private companies, and implementing universal medical insurance.
Supporters of Boric say that he will completely change the economic development model promoted by former Chilean President Augusto Jose Ramon Pinochet Ugarte. In 1973, Pinochet came to power and started the country’s 17-year military rule, gradually abandoning the inward-looking import substitution industrialization model that has been in operation for 30 years in Chile, and the country turned to a neoliberal development model and adjusted its industrial structure. , Implement privatization, open markets, expand free trade, and vigorously develop an export-oriented economic development model. Although the economic development method Pinochet promoted at that time promoted Chile’s economic growth, it was also accused of exacerbating the gap between the rich and the poor.
Jorge Valdivia, a 54-year-old businessman and supporter of Boric, said that Chile can end this dark, destructive, and benefiting small number of people’s economic development methods.
In 2011, in order to demand a better and more affordable education, Boric led a student protest and gained fame. On Saturday, December 18 this year, he wrote in an open letter that his government will implement the changes requested by the Chilean people during the social unrest in 2019.
The protests that began in October 2019 lasted for several months and sometimes turned into violent activities. These protests triggered the formal process of redrafting Chile’s constitution, which has been used for decades, and a referendum will be held on the text of the constitution next year.
Boric also wrote in the open letter, “(This means) there will be a real social security system that will not leave the Chilean people behind, will end the gap between the rich and the poor in health care, and will not Do not hesitate to advance women’s freedom and rights.”
On October 6, 2019, the ticket price of the Chilean capital Santiago Metro during the morning and evening peak hours rose from 800 pesos to 830 pesos (100 pesos, about 1 yuan). After that, the student-based protesters evaded their fares and entered the station. It has evolved into acts of occupying stations, destroying subway facilities, large-scale protests and demonstrations, and even vicious violence such as arson and shop robbery. On October 19, the then President Piñera declared a state of emergency in Santiago, and the military announced a curfew in Santiago. Fifteen of Chile’s 16 regions have entered a state of emergency partially or completely, but the riots have intensified.
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