History Made as 35-Year-Old Student Activist Gabriel Boric Elected President Of Chile
- For a nation that has been roiled by social upheaval, the election of Gabriel Boric as Chile’s president-elect is indeed a great way to end the year
- Prior to his election, Boric was a student activist at high school and in 2011 when he studied law at the University of Chile, he became a student union leader
- Meanwhile, with 99.95% of ballots counted, Boric won with 55.87% of the vote, securing victory over his right-wing opponent, Jose Antonio Kast, who trailed with 44.13%
On Sunday, December 19, history was made as leftist Gabriel Boric became Chile’s youngest-ever president-elect with a landslide victory recorded over his far-right rival in a polarizing race, The New York Times reports.
Boric, 35, garnered nearly 56 percent of the vote compared to 44 percent for ultra-conservative Jose Antonio Kast, who conceded even before the final result was announced.
The president-elect started student activism in high school and in 2011, he studied law at the University of Chile, where he was then elected student union leader.
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Daily Trust added that tens of thousands of Chileans took to the streets of the capital and other cities after Kast’s concession, honking car horns in approval, brandishing pro-Boric placards, waving the rainbow LGBTQ flag and shouting: “Viva Chile!”.
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His mantra
The president-elect had campaigned on the promise of installing a social welfare state, increasing taxes and social spending in a country with one of the world’s largest gaps between rich and poor.
He won by a margin of nearly a million ballots out of 8.3 million cast by 15 million eligible voters.
Boric will be inaugurated in March 2022.
I'm surprised: Brother of 22-year-old Nigerian man who was picked by Twitter's founder to head Bitcoin fund
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had earlier reported that while many persons received with awe the news that three Nigerians who were selected to be board members of Twitter's founder Bitcoin Trust (BTrust) fund, one man whose brother made the cut doesn't seem wowed by the selection.
For Khalil Nur Khalil, it is well deserved that his 22-year-old younger brother, Abubakar Nur Khalil, made the final selection list from the 7000 persons that applied.
Khalil who is the executive secretary at Kaduna Investment Promotion Agency (KADIPA) told Legit.ng's Victor Duru that his younger brother has done a lot as far as the development of Bitcoin on the African continent is concerned.
AFLPM: Aisha Buhari gets presidential position in Africa
In another news, Nigeria's first lady, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, was on Monday, November 22, unanimously elected as the president of the African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM).
The election from which Aisha emerged unopposed and as such victorious, was conducted during the 9th General Assembly of the AFLPM.
This welcome development was announced by a presidential media aide, Femi Adesina, via Facebook.
Source: Legit.ng
