Critics said Boric was too young and inexperienced to be leading the country—but he won more votes than any other presidential candidate in Chile's history.
"I am going to be the president of all Chileans," Boric said in the brief televised appearance with outgoing President Sebastian Pinera."I am going to do my best to get on top of this tremendous challenge."
Boric has also pledged to tax the rich, implement a welfare state and increase public spending, as well start an inclusion of women and non-binary Chileans and indigenous peoples. In 2013, running as an independent candidate, Boric was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, representing the Magallanes and Antarctic district. Four years later, he was re-elected running as part of the Broad Front, a left-wing coalition he created with several other parties.
The election win in Chile on Sunday also makes Boric the second youngest state leader in the world, behind 27-year-old Captain Regent of San Marino Giacomo Simoncini and younger than Finland's 36-year-old Prime Minister Sanna Marin.
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