Biography of chilean presidential election 2010

President of Chile since 2022

In this Chilean name, the first or paternal surname is Boric and the second or maternal family name is Font.

Gabriel Boric Font (Spanish pronunciation:[ɡaˈβɾjel‿ˈβoɾitʃˈfont]; born 11 February 1986) is a Chilean politician and the President of Chile since March 2022. He previously served two four-year terms as a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies.

Boric first gained prominence as a student leader while studying law at the University of Chile, where he led its influential student federation during the 2011 student protests. He served in the Chamber of Deputies from 2014 to 2022, representing Magallanes, his home region. He ran as an independent candidate in 2013 and later as part of the Broad Front coalition in 2017. In 2018, Boric founded the Social Convergence party, one of the parties that constituted the Broad Front before it became a political party through a merger. During the 2019 civil unrest in Chile, Boric played a pivotal role in negotiating the agreement that led to the October 2020 constitutional referendum.

In December 2021, Boric secured the presidency by defeating José Antonio Kast in the second round of the presidential election, receiving 55.9% of the votes. Following his election, Boric became the youngest president in Chilean history and is currently the seventh youngest serving state leader in the world.

Early life

Family

Gabriel Boric was born in Punta Arenas in 1986. He has two brothers, Simón and Tomás.

On his father's side, Boric hails from a Croatian-Chilean family with roots in Ugljan, an island off the Adriatic coast of Croatia. Despite his ancestors' migration from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Chile in 1897, Boric maintains connections with his relatives residing in Ugljan. His great-grandfather,

The prison fire the same month was similarly revealing. Chileans have long prided themselves on their country's relatively low crime rates by Latin American standards but the fire, in a grim, overcrowded jail, showed them another, more unsavoury facet of their criminal justice system.

President Pinera has vowed to overhaul that system next year and to address a long list of other social ills.

"2011 is going to be a year of great structural reforms - reforms that are long overdue," he said, placing education and health at the top of his "to-do" list.

Ironically, given all that has happened, the key event of Mr Pinera's first year in office was arguably his own election.

"Earthquakes have always been with us. We don't know when the next one will strike, but we do know, we have always known, that there will be another earthquake," said Patricio Navia, a Chilean political scientist at New York University.

"History will judge the most important event of the year to be the defeat of the centre-left government that ruled Chile for 20 years, and the election of a new, moderate, right-wing government. It's the first right-wing government since (Gen Augusto) Pinochet. That's quite something."

As they head off for their summer holidays, many Chileans will be glad to see the back of 2010. At times it has been a year of joy, solidarity in the face of adversity, and has generated a tremendous outpouring of patriotic sentiment. But it has also been a year of setbacks, terrible tragedy and pain.

"We're bruised as a result of this year, but we're more conscious of the problems and challenges we now face," Mr Gomez-Pablos said. "We're alive but we're more aware of our own vulnerability. And that's no bad thing."

President of Chile (2010–2014; 2018–2022)

Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (Spanish:[miˈɣelˈxwanseβasˈtjampiˈɲeɾaetʃeˈnike]; 1 December 1949 – 6 February 2024) was a Chilean businessman and politician who served as President of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022. The son of a Christian Democratic politician and diplomat, he studied business administration at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and economics at Harvard University. At the time of his death, he had an estimated net worth of US$2.7 billion, according to Forbes, making him the third richest person in Chile and the 1177th richest person in the world.

A member of the liberal-conservative National Renewal party, he served as a senator for the East Santiago district from 1990 to 1998, running for the presidency in the 2005 election, which he lost to Michelle Bachelet, and again, successfully, in 2010. As a result, he became Chile's first conservative president to be democratically elected since 1958, and the first to hold the office since the departure of Augusto Pinochet in 1990.

The legacy of Piñera's two administrations include the reconstruction following the 2010 Chile earthquake, the rescue of 33 trapped miners in 2010, a rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the legalization of same-sex marriage in Chile in 2021–2022. His administrations also faced the two largest protests movements since the return of democracy in 1990; the 2011 student protests and the more massive and violent 2019–2020 protests. After leaving office in 2022 Piñera developed amicable relations with the new left-wing president Gabriel Boric, who had previously been a harsh critic of him. Piñera died in a helicopter crash on Lake Ranco on 6 February 2024 at age 74. Piñera's supporters form a cross-party centre-right and right-wing faction cal