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%T Gabriel Boric assumes office in Chile: a "hinge presidency" launched amidst constitutional process %A Zilla, Claudia %P 6 %V 18/2022 %D 2022 %K Boric, Gabriel; Linksorientierte Partei %@ 2747-5107 %~ SWP %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-83528-2 %X On 19 December 2021, Gabriel Boric won the run-off of the Chilean presidential election with 55.9 percent of votes, 11.8 percentage points ahead of José Antonio Kast. That day voter participation in Chile reached a historic high (55.6 percent) since the abolition of mandatory voting. This great mobilisation helped Boric - who had finished second in the first round - to victory. The newly elected president therefore has a solid democratic foundation, but Chileans have also invested great hopes in him. Furthermore, the new head of government will have to contend with the tensions between two institutions: a Constitutional Convention and a Congress that is divided along party lines. His four-year mandate, starting on 11 March, could be both the last under the “Pinochet Constitution” and the start of a democratic transformation. (author's abstract) %C DEU %C Berlin %G en %9 Stellungnahme %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info