Bachelet endorses Boric and called on all Chileans to vote [View all]
The former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet, currently UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, assured that she will vote for Gabriel Boric in next Sunday's Chilean presidential election.
“It doesn’t matter which candidate is voted for and that’s why I am going to vote for Gabriel Boric - and I want to make a call to all my compatriots to attend to vote,” Bachelet stated during her vacation in Chile through a video published by her foundation, Horizonte Ciudadano.
Boric, 35, congressman for the leftist Approve Dignity coalition, had advanced last night in the last presidential debate ahead of Sunday’s second round – in which he will face the far-right candidate José Antonio Kast, 55.
“We got together to talk (with Ms. Bachelet). We had a very good conversation,” Boric confirmed to the press. The congressman said that they had a “long” conversation in which they talked about “Chile, the world, the human and the divine”, without giving more details.
Bachelet, 70, had been president of Chile in 2006-10 and 2014-18, and remains popular. She arrived in Chile on vacation on Saturday to spend the Christmas and New Year holidays with her family.
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Chilean presidential candidate Gabriel Boric and former President Michelle Bachelet, who endorsed Boric today.
Bachelet, currently UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on voters to “guarantee a path of progress for all Chileans: A path of greater liberty, equality, respect for human rights, environmental sustainability - and the possibility of a new constitution” to replace the current Pinochet-era document.
Polling shows a tightening in the race between Boric and his far-right opponent José Kast.
Kast is the son of a Nazi officer, and the brother of a former central bank head during Chile's 1982-83 crash at the depths of the Pinochet regime.
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