The President of >Gabriel BoricHe got stuck while playing on a toboggan in Punta Arenas, the president’s hometown, on Sunday, April 7th. Seconds later, the Chilean President managed to free himself from the toy.
The scene was recorded and went viral on social media. During the video, a woman laughs and jokes about the incident while questioning Boric’s maturity.
Boric visited his hometown on Sunday to take part in the election that will elect 50 members who will write a new constitution for the country.
The farright Republican Party advocates keeping the current constitution of the Chile won the constituent elections with 35.6% of the vote. The new electors will draft the new Magna Carta project to replace the one inherited from the dictatorship of >August Pinochet.
In second place was the Unity for Chile list (28%), formed by most of the parties in the governing coalition (the leftwing president’s Frente Ampla Gabriel Boric, the Communist Party and the Socialist Party), while third place on the Chile Seguro list went to the traditional right (21.6%).
José Antonio Kast, leader of the Republican Party, celebrates the party’s victory in gaining a majority of voters. Photo: Esteban Félix / AP
The extreme right and the traditional right together have an absolute majority and collect more than 30 seats necessary to approve the new constitutional norms without having to agree with the left, which will allow them to steer the course of the proposed ones establish a new Magna Carta.
During a televised speech, Boric called on the Republican Party to engage in dialogue. “The previous process failed because we didn’t know how to listen to those who thought differently. I would now like to invite the Republican Party not to make the same mistake that we made,” the president said.
Boric’s first proposal was rejected
The first attempt to change the text began after several protests in Chile against former President Sebastian Pinera in 2019. But the charter >was rejected by 62% of voters in Septemberalready during the term of office of the new President Gabriel Boric, who supported the proposal.
The first constituent consisted of 155 MPs elected in May 2021 during the pandemic. More than twothirds of those elected were independents, many of them newcomers to politics and activists.