The streets of Santiago erupted in celebration Sunday after leftist millennial Gabriel Boric became Chile's youngest-ever president-elect.
The new president will face the difficult task of healing a society reeling from a polarising campaign replete with antagonistic attacks and fake news onslaughts.
Mr Boric on Sunday reiterated his plans for "a more humane Chile, a more dignified Chile, a more egalitarian Chile." Mr Boric and Mr Kast had softened their policy proposals in a bid to appeal to Chileans left without an obvious candidate when they split the centrist vote in the first round, leaving only the two antipodes.Chileans in Australia among the first to vote in the country's high-stakes electionChile is going through profound change after voting overwhelmingly last year in favor of drawing up a new constitution to replace the one enacted in the Pinochet years.
The drafting process, in the hands of a largely left-leaning body elected in May, must yield a constitution for approval next year, on the new president's watch.
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