Gabriel Boric

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Gabriel Boric (2021)

Gabriel Boric Font (born February 11, 1986 in Punta Arenas ) is a Chilean politician . He has been a member of the Chilean House of Representatives for the 28th electoral district in the Región de Magallanes since 2014 . As a candidate of the coalition Apruebo Dignidad he won on 19 December 2021, the runoff of the presidential election in Chile in 2021 and is therefore designated President .

Early life

Boric was born in Punta Arenas in 1986. He has both Croatian and Catalan ancestry. He attended from 1991 to 2003, The British School in Punta Arenas, before the 2004 Universidad de Chile moved to where law to study.

As early as 1999, Boric took part in the reintroduction of the Federación de Estudiantes Secundarios in Punta Arenas. At the Universidad de Chile he finally became part of the "Izquierda Autónoma", a left-wing movement at universities. In 2009 he was elected President of the “Centro de Estudiantes de Derecho”, the association of law students at the Universidad de Chile. In the following years he remained active in university politics. In December 2011 he was finally elected President of the United Student Body of the Universidad de Chile (Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile). He prevailed in the election against the incumbent President Camila Vallejo . In the course of this he also became one of the leaders of the student protests in Chile in 2011 , which campaigned for comprehensive reforms in the education system.

Career as a politician

Member of the House of Representatives

In the parliamentary elections in Chile in 2013 , Boric ran as an independent candidate in the 60th electoral district, which includes his home region, the Región de Magallanes. Although he did not join any of the major parties or alliances, he received the most votes in his electoral district with 26.2% and was elected MP. His mandate began on March 11, 2014. There he was a member of the Committee on Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples, the Committee on Extreme Areas and the Chilean Antarctic Territory, and the Committee on Labor and Social Security. In 2016, together with Giorgio Jackson , he founded the Frente Amplio , a coalition of various left-wing parties and movements. In the parliamentary elections in Chile in 2017 , he was able to defend his seat in the House of Representatives with 32.8% of the vote as an independent member of the Frente Amplio, but this time in the 28th electoral district after the constituency reform in Chile. This time he became a member of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation, Justice and Regulations and again on the Committee on Extreme Areas and the Chilean Antarctic Territory. Boric supported the demands made by the 2019 protests in Chile .

Candidate in the 2021 presidential election

On March 17, 2021, Boric was elected as the official candidate for the Convergencia Social's presidential election in Chile 2021 . On March 23, 2021 he was also elected as a candidate for the Revolución Democrática . On July 18, 2021, he entered as a candidate of the two parties and the Comunes and coalition Frente Amplio in the primaries of the left coalition Apruebo Dignidad against the mayor of Recoleta and coalition candidate Chile Digno and the Communist Party of Chile , Daniel Jadue to . Although Jadue was ahead of Boric in the polls, Boric was able to unite 60.43% of the votes behind him and so surprisingly prevail against Jadue. By winning the primary, he was made the official candidate of Apruebo Dignidad for the first round of the presidential election on November 21, 2021. At 35, he was the youngest ever candidate in a presidential election in Chile. In the polls, Boric was in the lead for a long time after he was chosen as a candidate for his coalition. In October 2021, however, he was overtaken by the candidate of the right-wing coalition Frente Social Cristiano , José Antonio Kast . In the first round of the election, Boric was only able to achieve second place with 25.83% of the votes, behind Kast, who received 27.91% of the votes. Both competed against each other in a runoff election on December 19, 2021, which Boric won.

Political positions

In his election program for the 2021 presidential election, Boric set out the program points that he would like to implement as president. The program initially comprises 53 specific amendments that will be specified in a government program. Proposed social reforms are at the center of his election manifesto. Chile is one of the countries in the world with the greatest inequality between the richest and poorest people in the country. Boric wants to tackle this by strengthening the welfare state and thus wanting to overcome neoliberalism . Among other things, he would like to modernize the pension system, increase the minimum wage and build a state health insurance system. He would like to achieve these goals, among other things, by increasing taxation of the rich and industry.

In addition, Boric advocates the increased inclusion of women, ethnic minorities such as the Mapuche and members of the LGBTQ movement . Decentralization and the fight against climate change also play central roles in his program. Boric also supports the Constituent Assembly of Chile .

Web links

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Individual evidence

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  6. ↑ Equipo Emol.com: Resultados de las Elecciones Presidenciales, Parlamentarias y Cores 2017 en Chile - Especial de Emol.com. Retrieved July 10, 2021 .
  7. ^ Diputado Vidal (RD) afirma que "Gabriel Boric entró en la lista de presidenciables del Frente Amplio". Retrieved July 10, 2021 (Spanish).
  8. ↑ Apruebo Dignidad y Chile Vamos se preparan para iniciar franja electoral de primarias presidenciales. June 30, 2021, accessed July 10, 2021 (Spanish).
  9. ↑ Quiénes son y qué representan Gabriel Boric y Sebastián Sichel, los dos inesperados triunfadores de las primarias presidenciales en Chile . In: BBC News Mundo . ( bbc.com [accessed July 19, 2021]).
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  11. ↑ Encuesta presidencial “La Cosa Nostra”: Boric es el favorito en todos los escenarios. In: eldesconcierto.cl. September 21, 2021, accessed December 11, 2021 (Spanish).
  12. ↑ Meganoticias: Cadem: Kast y Boric empatan ante pregunta sobre quién será el próximo Presidente. October 31, 2021, accessed December 11, 2021 (es-cl).
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  15. ↑ Bloomberg - Are you a robot? Retrieved December 20, 2021 .
  16. ↑ Christoph Gurk: Elections in Chile: José Antonio Kast is ahead of the runoff election. Retrieved December 20, 2021 .
  17. ↑ a b Who is Gabriel Boric? The radical student leader who will be Chile's next president. December 20, 2021, accessed December 20, 2021 .
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  19. ↑ Salud. Retrieved December 20, 2021 (es-cl).
  20. ↑ Economía. Retrieved December 20, 2021 (es-cl).
  21. ↑ Feminismo. Retrieved December 20, 2021 (es-cl).
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  24. ↑ Crisis Climatica y Medio Ambiente. Retrieved December 20, 2021 (es-cl).
  25. ↑ El Mercurio SAP: La nueva relación de la Convención con el Ejecutivo ante la llegada de Gabriel Boric a La Moneda | Emol.com. December 19, 2021, accessed December 20, 2021 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Boric, Gabriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boric Font, Gabriel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean politician
BIRTH DATE February 11, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Punta Arenas , Chile