Gabriel Boric

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In this Spanish name, the family name is Boric.
Gabriel Boric
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Boric in 2021
Member of the
Chamber of Deputies of Chile
from Magallanes
Assumed office
11 March 2014
Preceded by Miodrag Marinović
Constituency 60th district (2014–2018)
28th district (2018–present)
President of the
University of Chile Student Federation
In office
19 December 2011 – 28 November 2012
Preceded by Camila Vallejo
Succeeded by Andrés Fielbaum
Personal details
Born (1986-02-11) 11 February 1986 (age 38)
Punta Arenas, Magallanes, Chile
Political party Social Convergence
Other political
affiliations		 Autonomist Movement
Autonomous Left
Education University of Chile[1]

Gabriel Boric Font (pronounced: ['boritʃ], Croatian: Borić; born 11 February 1986)[2] is the current far-left socialist President of Chile. He was elected in the 2013 general election as an independent candidate, and was re-elected in 2017, receiving the most number of votes among all candidates in the Magallanes Region in both elections. He won the Apruebo Dignidad Presidential primary for the 2021 Chilean general election on July 18th, 2021 with 60% of the popular vote, becoming a Presidential candidate for the leftist electoral coalition.

Boric studied in the Faculty of Law at the University of Chile, and was the President of the University of Chile Student Federation in 2012.[3][4][5] He was part of the student movement Autonomous Left (Izquierda Autónoma), and the director of an NGO named Nodo XXI.[6]

Biography

Gabriel Boric was born in Punta Arenas in 1986 as the son of Luis Boric, of Croatian descent, a chemical engineer and a public employee at Empresa Nacional del Petróleo for more than four decades;[7] and of María Font, of Catalan-Spanish descent.[8][9]

Boric studied at The British School in his hometown.[10][11] He then moved to Santiago to study at University of Chile's Law School in 2004.[12]

Student politics

In 1999 and 2000, Boric participated in the re-establishment of the Federation of Secondary School Students of Punta Arenas.[13] While at university, he joined the political collective Autonomous Left (Izquierda Autónoma), initially known as Estudiantes Autónomos (Autonomous Students). He was an advisor to the Students' Union of the Law Department in 2008 and became its president in 2009, when he led a protest for 44 days against the dean Roberto Nahum.[14] He also represented students as a university senator.

Boric was a candidate for the leadership of the University of Chile Student Federation (FECH) as part of the list Creando Izquierda in the elections of 5-6 December 2011. He was elected president with 30.52% of the votes, defeating Camila Vallejo, who was then the president of the federation running for re-election as part of the list Communist Youth of Chile.[15]

During his time as president of the FECH, Boric had to face the second part of the student protests that began in 2011, becoming one of the main spokespersons of the Federation of Chilean Students.[16] In 2012, he was included on the list of 100 young leaders of Chile, published by the Saturday magazine of the newspaper El Mercurio, in collaboration with Adolfo Ibáñez University.[17]

Member of Chamber of Deputies (2014–present)

In 2013, Boric ran in the parliamentary elections as an independent candidate to represent District 60 (currently District 28), which encompasses the Region of Magallanes and the Chilean Antarctic. He was elected with 15,418 votes (26.18%), the highest number received by any candidate in the region.[18][19] The media highlighted the fact that Boric was elected outside of an electoral coalition,[20] thereby successfully breaking through the Chilean bi-nominal election system.[21][22][23][24]

Boric was sworn in as member of the Chamber of Deputies on 11 March 2014. During his first term, Boric sat on the Commissions for Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples; Extreme Zones and the Chilean Antarctic; and Labour and Social Security.

In 2017, Boric was reelected as member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Magallanes Region with an increased majority. He obtained 15,417 votes (24.62%), which was again the highest number of votes for any candidate in the region.

2021 presidential candidacy

Boric is a candidate in the 2021 Chilean presidential election. On 18 July 2021, Boric won the Apruebo Dignidad primary election in an upset against Recoleta mayor Daniel Jadue, receiving approximately 60% of the vote.[25] Prior to the primary election, Jadue had been favored over Boric in some national opinion polls.[26] Following his primary victory, Boric announced on Twitter that he would work together with Jadue during the general election in order to present a united front.[27]

Electoral history

2013 parliamentary elections

2013 parliamentary elections for deputy of District 60 (Río Verde, Antártica, Laguna Blanca, Natales, Cabo de Hornos, Porvenir, Primavera, Punta Arenas, San Gregorio, Timaukel and Torres del Paine)[18]

Candidate List Party Votes % Result
Gabriel Boric Independent (No list) IND 15,418 26.20 Elected
Juan Morano New Majority PDC 10,753 18.27 Elected
Domingo Rubilar New Majority PPD 8,122 13.80
Karim Bianchi Independent (No list) IND 7,999 13.59
Sandra Amar Alianza ILJ 6,581 11.18
Gloria Vilicic Alianza RN 6,510 11.06
Rodrigo Utz Independent (No list) IND 2,613 4.44
Margarita Novakovic Partido Regionalista de los Independientes PRI 545 0.92
Jorge Patricio Ivelic Partido Regionalista de los Independientes PRI 300 0.50

2017 parliamentary elections

2017 parliamentary elections for deputy of District 28 (Río Verde, Antártica, Laguna Blanca, Natales, Cabo de Hornos, Porvenir, Primavera, Punta Arenas, San Gregorio, Timaukel and Torres del Paine)[18]

Candidate List Party Votes % Results
Gabriel Boric Font Broad Front IND-PH 18 626 32.8 Elected
Sandra Amar Mancilla Chile Vamos IND-UDI 6846 12.1 Elected
Nicolás Cogler Galindo Chile Vamos RN 4815 8.5
Juan José Arcos Srdanovic Chile Vamos PRI 4220 7.4
Karim Bianchi Retamales The Force of the Majority IND-PRSD 4190 7.4 Elected
Vladimiro Mimica Cárcamo The Force of the Majority IND-PS 3807 6.7

See also

References

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