Gabriel Boric, the youngest president in the history of Chile

The leftist Gabriel Boric assumed the Presidency of Chile this Friday for the period 2022-2026, becoming at 36 years old the youngest president in the country’s history.

“Before the people and peoples of Chileyes I promise”, Boric said to later raise his left fist and sign, after a great sigh, his position as the highest authority of the southern country in substitution of the conservative Sebastián Piñera.

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Piñera handed over his presidential sash to the socialist senator Álvaro Elizalde, recently appointed president of the Senate, who later placed his on Boric.

Subsequently, Piñera placed the new president with the pickaxe, a five-pointed star of the liberator Bernardo O’Higgins who represents the highest authority of the southern country, to close the change of command with a hug between the outgoing and incoming president.

The metal badge was hung from Boric’s presidential sash, made by seamstresses from the Textile Revolutionary Union of Chile.

borik he sang the national anthem with his hand on his heart and at the end he said goodbye shaking hands with former President Piñera, who left the Congress hall with his wife to applause.

After the inauguration of the president, the 24 ministers of Boric’s cabinet, including 14 women, assumed their portfolios at the Congress headquarters.