Former student leader Gabriel Boric claims 55.8% of votes counted to defeat far-right opponent José Antonio Kast
He paused only to lead the crowd in chants or smile up at the fireworks exploding overhead.
An aerial view of Santiago’s La Alameda, where Boric supporters gathered to celebrate his election victory.His relative inexperience was regularly highlighted by his rivals, but on Sunday night Boric was fluent and assured as he reiterated his campaign pledges before the raucous crowd of supporters. The air on Sunday night was split by the sound of car horns and the jubilant chants of Boric’s supporters, who thronged the street corners, plazas and wide boulevards of downtown Santiago.
With Boric failing to gain ground across much of the country in the first-round vote on 21 November, which he lost to Kast by two percentage points, Cariola was instrumental in overturning the deficit as part of a series of nationwide tours which sought to visit 1m homes the length of the country.
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