Boric beat the far right. His next task is uniting a divided population Kirsten Sehnbruch
thousands of Chileans who took to the streets to celebrate the victory of Gabriel Boric, a left wing former student leader, in Chile’s presidential runoff elections certainly thought so. Boric won with a 12-point margin and a historic number of votes, imposing a convincing defeat on the right wing candidate José Antonio Kast that few would have predicted only a month ago. Yet Boric’s victory speech was anything but gloating.
