At the gates of La Moneda, Boric, who at 35 is the youngest elected president in the recent history of Chile, took a few minutes to approach to greet hundreds of supporters who were waiting for him with posters of support and the shout of ” feel, feel, President Boric “.
After entering the Government Palace, in the capital city of Santiago, Boric, dressed in a dark jacket and shirt without a tie, was received and greeted with a handshake by the conservative Piñera, both with a light blue chinstrap due to the coronavirus.
“Welcome to La Moneda. Have a good government management,” Piñera told Boric, in addition to congratulating him on his triumph.
After the greeting, the meeting became private. At the exit, Boric made statements to the press on the issues discussed.
“It seems relevant to me to highlight the character of the State that it has beyond the political differences, which can be very large, but the State of Chile is still one,” said the elected president.
“In that sense, both the visit of closet Yesterday, like this meeting, they speak well of our country and it is something that I value and I hope that our government can deepen it, “he added.
Boric revealed that he spoke with Piñera about “international issues”, and stressed in this regard that “it is important to have a policy of continuity in international relations.”
He indicated that they also analyzed “Matters also related to the pandemic, the importance of economic reactivation, budgetary issues.”
“In addition, I could not stop raising the tremendous concern that we have that impunity is not installed in Chile in the matter of violations of human rights“he added.
When asked about the composition of his cabinet, Boric recalled in his words that Piñera elected his ministers a month after being elected, and said: “I hope not to exceed that deadline, but we are aware that it is important for the country to deliver certainties, which some may like and others may not “.
“We will do everything possible so that the processes are fast, and by the way we must carry out a process of checking and crosschecking so as not to be mistaken, because Chile’s trust and vision towards the world is also at stake,” he added.
Regarding the negative reactions of the financial markets after his victory in yesterday’s ballot, he indicated: “It seems to me that the democratic decisions made by the people of Chile should not be subject to pressures that go along paths other than the democratic ones. “.
Boric yesterday defeated the ultra-conservative candidate José Antonio Kast by more than ten points, with 55% of the votes against 44.1%, in the most polarized ballot since Chile’s return to democracy after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973 -1990).
The young deputy and former student leader will assume the Presidency next March, after being, in addition to the youngest, the president who received the highest absolute number of votes in the history of the country, with 4,620,671.
Boric came to power as a candidate of a broad left-wing coalition, in a Chile in the midst of a political transformation after a wave of popular protests in 2018 demanding a root change to the neoliberal economic model inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship, which Kast claimed.
The president-elect has promised a strong shift towards a welfare state, guaranteed public pensions, universal and quality health and education, and respect for human rights.
Effect on markets
With investors hoping for a victory for Kast, the market candidate, the Santiago Stock Exchange fell today by 6.83% at the open, and the peso, the Chilean currency, depreciated sharply against the dollar, by 3, 02%
The election registered a historic turnout, with 55.6% of the more than 15 million eligible voters, close to 8.3 million.
Analysts agree that Boric’s triumph was based on the greater participation in Sunday’s ballot: 1.2 million more votes than in the first round of last month, in which Kast had won.
Boric will take office on March 22, 2022, and among his many challenges stands out to accompany the Constituent Convention that drafts a new Magna Carta that will replace the one inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship, one of the greatest achievements of the protest movement that shook Chile in 2018.
Another great challenge will be to keep together its I Approve Dignity coalition, an alliance of alliances in which the Frente Amplio and the Communist Party groups stand out and which will control only a third of the seats in Parliament.
Source From: Ambito
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