īoric 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 also represented students as a university senator from 2010 to 2012. 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. While at university, he joined the political collective Autonomous Left ( Izquierda Autónoma), initially known as Autonomous Students ( Estudiantes Autónomos). In 19, Boric participated in the re-establishment of the Federation of Secondary School Students of Punta Arenas. Political career Student politics īoric as President of the University of Chile Students Federation, in 2012. In an interview, Zalaquett has valued Boric for "his capacity to doubt". ĭuring part of his time at university Boric earned a slot as assistant to professor José Zalaquett in the latter's human rights course. Boric never received a law degree and has mentioned in interviews he never expected to work as a lawyer, saying he preferred to be a writer instead. However, he failed the test in 2011 and did not take it a second time. He then prepared for his degree's final exam and completed his mandatory internship. He finished his courses in 2009, the same year he became President of the Law School students' union. He then moved to Santiago to study at University of Chile's law school in 2004. Education īoric studied at The British School in his hometown. Gabriel Boric was born in Punta Arenas in 1986. Both Roque Scarpa and his own father were members of the Christian Democratic Party. Roque Scarpa Martinich, another of his granduncles, was the first intendant of Magallanes Region after the end of the military dictatorship. In the Patagonian region of Magallanes, one of his granduncles, Vladimiro Boric, served as the first bishop of Punta Arenas. Gabriel Boric's mother is María Soledad Font Aguilera, of Catalan descent. Gabriel Boric's father, Luis Boric Scarpa, is a chemical engineer who has been a government employee of the Empresa Nacional del Petróleo for more than 40 years. Boric's grandfather Luis Boric Crnosij, born in 1908, was one of these children. Juan Boric went briefly back to Ugljan to marry and brought his wife to Magallanes where ten of their eleven children were born. In Magallanes, the two brothers joined the ongoing Tierra del Fuego gold rush spending time in the islands south of Beagle Channel. Boric's great-grandfather Juan Boric (Ive Borić Barešić) arrived with his brother Simón (Šime) to Punta Arenas around 1885, reportedly being among the first ten Croats to arrive in Magallanes. Although his Borić ancestors left what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire for Chile in 1897, he still has relatives on Ugljan. On his father's side, Boric is from a Croatian Chilean family from Ugljan, an island off Croatia's Adriatic coast. 3.6 Reparations related to the 2019–2020 protests.3.2 Violence against government officials.2.2 Member of Chamber of Deputies (2014–2022).He is the youngest president in Chile's history and the second youngest state leader in the world. On 19 December 2021, Boric defeated José Antonio Kast in the second round of the presidential election, obtaining 55.9% of the votes.
In 2021, he was selected as the presidential candidate of the Apruebo Dignidad coalition (that included the democratic socialist Broad Front, the Communist Party and other smaller movements) after winning the official primaries with 60% of the popular vote. However in 2022, the more progressive constitution which Boric strongly advocated was rejected by a significant margin of voters. ĭuring the 2019 civil unrest in Chile, Boric was one of the politicians negotiating the agreement that paved the way for a referendum to change the Constitution. He is a founding member of Social Convergence, which was formed in 2018 and is one of the constituent parties of Broad Front.
Boric was twice elected to the Chamber of Deputies representing the Magallanes and Antarctic district, first as an independent candidate in 2013 and then in 2017 as part of the Broad Front, a left-wing coalition he created with several other parties. As a student representative, he became one of the leading figures of the 2011–2013 Chilean student protests. Boric studied in the Faculty of Law at the University of Chile, and was the president of the University of Chile Student Federation from 2011 to 2012. Gabriel Boric Font ( Spanish pronunciation: born 11 February 1986) is a Chilean left-wing politician who is the 37th and current president of Chile, serving since 11 March 2022.
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