Boric after voting: “The heart is full and hope intact”

At 9:35 a.m., Gabriel Boric got out of the car to enter the polling place. Outside the Patogonia School there were people waiting for him with Magellanic flags. Chaos formed at the entrance, cheers accompanied him to the door. “That the children convince their parents and the grandchildren to their grandparents, it is important to go and vote,” said the Presidential candidate of Apruebo Dignidad. “This moment is tremendously important, to be clear about where we come from, with our feet firmly on the ground,” he added. Boric arrived accompanied by his partner, his father and his brother already at 9:40 a.m. he had deposited the ballot in the ballot box. Then he went out and on the fence of the school he took selfies with all the people who arrived at the polling place. “We are calm. Everything has happened, we have been present in almost all regions. I think people are coming out to vote, some for the first time, others taking up the Approve vote. We have been listening to build our program,” said Irina Karamanos. After all the photos, Boric spoke to the media. “Many times they (the children) are not talked about, but in their eyes is the future of Chile. Thanks to everyone who has supported us, the sense of responsibility is historic,” said the candidate assuring that he will not fail the children. Then he said that “tonight, I hope to be the president of all Chileans. I am hopeful, I am calm, because I firmly believe that we have made a campaign that has been clean, without inventing and spreading lies,” the candidate added. He also warned that they trust the electoral system, led by servel. “We trust the institutions of our country. We will respect whatever the result. Think that politics can be different. We are new, we enter with clean hands, it is possible to make Chile more dignified, more humane more egalitarian. We say this to the person who dwells in the countryside, to those of the great north. No one here is forgotten,” Boric said. It is a historic moment, the heart is full and hope intact,” he added. Finally, he affirmed that he will respect the result of the elections “whoever wins and whoever loses, let us understand that democracy is more important than me and José Antonio Kast.” On the same subject, he said he would receive the call from President Sebastián Piñera if he is the winner of the election. “If we have to lose, we will recognize it, but we will win. We expect mutual recognition from our adversary. Of course the president-elect is a Republican act,” he closed. 

Original source in Spanish