The United States congratulates Gabriel Boric and hopes to promote together “shared goals”

The U.S. government congratulated Gabriel Boric on Monday for his victory in the presidential elections in Chile and said that hehope to continue working with the new Administration to promote the “shared objectives” of democracy, prosperity and security.

In a message on Twitter, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, also assured that the Chilean people “Set an example once more” with the holding of free and fair democratic elections.

Boric, un 35 year old student leader, was imposed this Sunday in the second round of the presidential elections by obtaining the 55.8% of the votes, with more than 10 percentage points of difference with respect to his rival, the far right José Antonio Kast.

Gabriel Boric becomes the new president of Chile after historic elections

According to official data, Boric obtained wide support in the capital, where half of the voters are found, and in other regions with large urban centers, such as Valparaíso, where it gained almost 20 points of advantage.

It would also have been imposed even in the northern region of Antofagasta, an area that Franco Parisi won in the first round, a controversial economist whose voters overwhelmingly backed Kast heading into the ballot.

Among the main challenges of the future Government will be channeling the social crisis that remains in force since the 2019 protests, lead the implementation of the norms of the new Constitution and cope with economic challenges left by the pandemic. (I)