© Marcos Zegers
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Three weeks following his victory at the polls and still two months following the change of command that will allow him to finalize his arrival in La Moneda, Gabriel Boric was officially proclaimed this Monday as President elect.
In a ceremony held in Compañía de Jesús 1288, in the commune of Santiago, the Election Qualifying Court (Tricel) made the standard-bearer of Approve Dignity official as the next President of the country to assume the highest position at the national level for the next four years –2022-2026– and succeed the current Head of State on March 11, Sebastian Piñera.
After 11:45, Boric arrived at the Tricel premises with Irina Karamanos and he was received amid applause by a group of adherents with whom he took pictures. The gesture of the also deputy for Magellan took a few minutes before entering the act.
Once inside, at 12.17 the ceremony began. After singing the national anthem, the president of Tricel, the minister Rosa Egnem Saldías, signed the act of proclamation together with the other four court ministers and the president of the Supreme Court, Juan Eduardo Fuentes, in order to begin the reading of the document, which was in charge of Tricel’s reporting secretary, Carmen Gloria Valladares,
“It is agreed to proclaim Gabriel Boric Font as President-elect of the Republic of Chile for the constitutional period of four years that begins on March 1, 2022,” Valladares declared during the instance.
After the reading, Minister Egnem Saldías made official delivery of the act of proclamation to the President-elect and they were photographed together. Then, Boric was invited to go up to the front with the members of Tricel and the president of the Supreme Court, to close the session that lasted less than thirty minutes.
The audience was attended by authorities from various state bodies, such as the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, Ximena Rincón and Diego Paulsen; the president of the Constitutional Convention, Maria Elisa Quinteros; and the national director of the Electoral Service (Servel), Raul garcia.
“I will do my best to live up to the expectations we have raised”
After being officially proclaimed as President-elect, Boric called the ceremony an “honor” and delivered a short speech in which highlighted some republican aspects of the country’s history. Among them, the figures of Bernardo O’Higgins and José Miguel Carrera, and the promulgation of the 1925 Constitution by former President Arturo Alessandri Palma.
So too, highlighted the constitutional work currently being carried out by the Convention for the drafting of a new Magna Carta and thanked “the thousands of anonymous Chileans who constitute the meaning by which we have reached the presidency of the Republic.”
“I will work tirelessly so that our government is at the service of all Chileans, and not in a particular group,” said Boric, adding: “I will do my best to live up to the expectations we have raised”.
“Know that as a team we take with the greatest responsibility the challenge that you have given us and the will of these more than 8 million Chileans who participated in the last election and, by the way, also of those who did not vote, to build a more together, more dignified, more egalitarian country. And where everyone has the right to be happy, regardless of the place of origin”, He concluded.
On December 19, the also current deputy for Magellan triumphed in the presidential runoff -the election with the most participation in the history of the country since the voluntary vote was established- with the 55,87% of the preferences (4,620,890 votes), leaving behind the candidacy of the former flag bearer of the Christian Social Front, Jose Antonio Kast, who got the 44,13% (3.650.088).
With that result, in addition, the standard-bearer of Approve Dignity will assume the next presidential term as the President. youngest elected in the country, with 36 years.