Gabriel Boric
Gabriel Boric Font (b. Punta Arenas February 11, 1986) also known as El Merluzo is a Chilean and self-described communist politician, current President of Chile, who was elected in Dec, 2021, at the age of 35 to serve between March 11, 2022 and March 11, 2026. He previously served as deputy from 2014 to 2022 and was a prominent student radical activist in the leftist mobilizations of 2011 which were about the nationalization of the education system in order to have a welfare state that provides 'free and quality education'.[1]
| Gabriel Boric | |||
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| President of Chile From: March 11, 2022 – March 11, 2026 | |||
| Predecessor | Sebastián Piñera | ||
| Successor | Incumbent (no successor) | ||
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, District 28 (Santiago) From: March 11, 2018 – March 11, 2022 | |||
| Predecessor | Creation of the district | ||
| Successor | Incumbent (no successor) | ||
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, District 60 (Santiago) From: March 11, 2014 – March 11, 2018 | |||
| Predecessor | Miodrag Marinović Solo de Zaldívar | ||
| Successor | Dissolution of the district | ||
| President of the Federation of Students of the University of Chile From: December 19, 2011 - November 28, 2012 | |||
| Predecessor | Camila Vallejo Dowling | ||
| Successor | Andrés Fielbaum | ||
| Information | |||
| Party | Social Convergence | ||
| Religion | Agnostic | ||
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His coalition called Apruebo Dignidad is integrated by the parties: Social Convergence (Boric's Party), Democratic Revolution, Green Ecologist Party, Commune Party, Communist Party, Social Green Regionalist Federation.
He supports the writing of a new progressive Constitution that creates a Plurinational State with the Indigenist idology, adopts the globalist 2030 Agenda from the United Nations. He is also an ally of the international communist São Paulo Forum.
During the 2019 Chilean State of Emergency he was against the Chilean Armed Forces and supported the agreement of the 15 of November of the same year that made possible the Constitutional change, something that was viewed as too moderate by the far-left since the agreement was made with the center-right.
Controversies
Sexual behavior
Boric was acused of being a sexual stalker in 2012. At that time, the complainant was an anthropology student, when he was president of the Student Federation of the University of Chile.
The complaint was confirmed by the president of Social Convergence, Alondra Arellano, to the electronic newspaper El Líbero. She said that "without the consent of the victim" she would not refer to the events that occurred, when said media asked her for a tweet in which she declared that she was available to "initiate a procedure" regarding the behaviors attributed to her party's standard-bearer.
According to the publication, the leader E. Schneider, a transexual deputy, also confirmed on her Twitter account that the facts were "true." Another leader of the Boric community confirmed that after the fact was known, at least two cancelations were carried out against the flag bearer. One in Santiago, and another in Magallanes.
The events occurred in 2012 during coordination activities of the Voluntary Work team of the Federation of the University of Chile. The victim, Macarena Castañeda, is a feminist.
She consulted the deputy team for this situation, she sent the request to the National Directorate of Social Convergence, where they specified that "there are no submitted."[2][3]
He also said in an interview that had a 'teen exploration' kissing men.[4]
Support of Left-wing Terrorism
- Main article: Left Wing Terrorism in Chile
In November 2018, Gabriel Boric, along with deputy Maite Orsini, went to France, and visited Ricardo Palma Salamanca, a member of the terrorist left-wing group 'Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front', who was convicted for the murder of Senator Jaime Guzmán in the 90s, and that he remains in asylum status in the European country.
The news generated controversy and criticism towards Boric, especially from the parliamentarians of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) and National Renewal (RN), who, through the Ethics Commission, announced sanctions against the deputies, risking a fine of 1,300,000 pesos.
Even so, Democratic Revolution (one of the main parties of his coalition), issued a statement that Boric and Orsini made the visit to Palma Salamanca under personal criteria and not on behalf of the coalition or their respective parties.
In December 2018, he was summoned by former deputy José Antonio Kast after taking a photograph in 2017 with a shirt that showed the image of Jaime Guzmán shot, later apologizing. In March 2019 he was sanctioned with a 5% discount on his diet for the Ethics and Transparency Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
2021 Election
- Main article: Chile presidential election, 2021
In the 2021 Presidential Election, the final front-runners were the Republican José Antonio Kast and Gabriel Boric. Kast won the first round with a 27.91 % of the votes (1,961,387 votes) and Boric obtained 25.82 % (1,814,777 votes). But Kast lost the second round obtaining 44.13 % (3,650,088 votes) against 55.87 % (4,620,890 votes) from Boric. With this Chile ends an era of free-market oriented policies and Socialism retakes the government.
Earlier polls showed a very tight race.[1]
Boric promised a welfare state, ending with the private pension system (making pensions non-inheritable and transfering them to a common fund), increasing taxes, limiting the working hours to 40 per week and creating a public fund for health.[5]
After Boric won, he was asked: "how much weight will the Communist Party have in your government?"[6]
Using pop culture
Regardless of politics, he generated youngsters' leftists excitement, who couldn't care less about politics, through his professed being a fan of singer Taylor Swift.[7][8] What is called a "Swifty." Like Barack Obama, he knows how to use pop culture, including natiive masses.
Views on Israel
Boric showed anti-Jewish bigotry after he got a blessing gift from the Jewish community in 2019, though it was masked under "criticism of Israel" - totally unrelated.[9]
Chile is home to largest Arab Palestinian population outside the Middle East. Many Jews intented first to vote for his rival, right-wing: José Antonio Kast as Chile’s Jews felt under ‘siege’ from anti-Israel sentiment.[10]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Monica Showalter, Stunning good news from Chile..., American Thinker, November 22, 2021.
- ↑ Emplazan a Gabriel Boric a aclarar denuncia de acoso sexual
- ↑ La acusación de acoso contra Boric que validaron dos candidatas a diputadas del FA y que desapareció de las redes
- ↑ Entrevista a Gabriel Boric (2017) | El Giornalista
- ↑ Chile’s new president promises to bury neoliberalism, Economist, Dec 20, 2021.
Latin America’s new leftists. Will Gabriel Boric, a millennial socialist, be as good as his word? - ↑ Gabriel Boric: how much weight will the Communist Party have in your government? Digismak, December 20, 2021
- ↑ https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/chiles-youngest-president-gabriel-boric-taylor-swift-fan-4577564.html
- ↑ https://twitter.com/TheSwiftSociety/status/1472719839118733315
- ↑ Damian Pachter, Chile's president-elect backs BDS, accuses Israel of 'g......e', ILH, 12-20-2021.
Two years ago, Gabriel Boric responded to a Rosh Hashana gift of honey from the local Jewish community by saying they could "start by demanding Israel return the Palestinian territory it illegally occupies."
Chile is home to some half a million Palestinian immigrants, most of whom are Christian. The country's Jewish population, in comparison, numbers only tens of thousands. President of the Chilean community in Israel Gabriel Colodro told Israel Hayom that "Boric has voted for every bill against Israel, called Israel a murderous state on public television, and consistently supports boycott of Israel." However, Colodro said, he is Chile's president-elect, a fact that should not only be respected, but appreciated. "He will be judged by his actions, not his declarations," Colodro said.
"His remarks and the agreements he has made have an antisemitic nature, but it's not important what he has said, but what he will do. There is concern for the Jewish community [in Chile], but we wish him success," Colodro said.
- ↑
Alan Grabindky, Chile’s Jews feel under ‘siege’ from anti-Israel sentiment, so they’re backing a far-right presidential candidate, JTA, Nov 23, 2021.
As in most other Latin American Jewish communities, with the exception of Argentina, the majority of Chilean Jews are staunch Zionists who stand behind more conservative leaders because of their perceived support of Israel. And what has defined public life for Chile’s 18,000 or so Jews during the past two decades, according to several community members, is a strong anti-Israel discourse emanating from the left, which includes the country’s vocal 350,000-strong Palestinian community, the largest one outside of the Middle East. “There is a feeling of siege,” Yonathan Nowogrodski, a 43-year-old engineer and decades-long community leader who identifies as center-left Zionist, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Since the Second Intifada in the late 1990s, the voice of pro-Israel activists on the left has been pushed aside by an increasingly well-organized Palestinian community, especially on university campuses, Nowogrodski said.