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Chile: the long and winding road ahead
El Siglo editor HUGO GUZMAN puts into context the immense electoral victory of Gabriel Boric and the progressive, left-wing forces united in the Apruebo Dignidad coalition
Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric
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THE former law student, Gabriel Boric, 35, received the most votes in any presidential election in Chile in the post-dictatorial era (55.86 per cent — 4.6 million votes).
He will be the youngest president of the republic and his election came as a result of unprecedented voter participation — almost 56 per cent of the around eight million entitled to vote.
The turnout came as a surprise and Boric won by 10 percentage points over his opponent, rightwinger Jose Antonio Kast — a political and electoral thrashing.
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