The former president of Chile Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010; 2014-2018), and current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, assured that he will vote for Gabriel Boric in the ballot to be held next Sunday to define the Chilean presidential election.
“It doesn’t matter which candidate is voted for and that’s why I am going to vote for Gabriel Boric and I want to make a call to all my compatriots to attend to vote “, The UN representative pointed out during her vacation in Chile through a video published by her foundation, Horizonte Ciudadano.
Boric, deputy of the Approve Dignity coalition – which brings together the Broad Front and the Communist Party – had advanced last night in the last presidential debate ahead of Sunday’s second round – in which he will face the far-right José Antonio Kast – who had spoken with the ex-president upon arrival in the country.
“We got together to talk. We had a very good conversation,” Boric confirmed to the press. The deputy said that they had a “long” conversation in which they talked about “Chile, the world, the human and the divine”, without giving more details.
Bachelet arrived in Chile on vacation on Saturday to spend the Christmas and New Year holidays with her family.
This Sunday, more than 15 million Chileans are summoned to vote voluntarily to choose the successor of the conservative Sebastián Piñera. In the first round, participation was barely 47 percent of the electorate.
Polls conducted before the electoral ban that began on December 4 place Boric narrowly victorious over Kast.
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