Gabriel Boric meets with the historic Mapuche leader Elisa Loncon, president of the Constituent Convention

• Chile President Boric's challenges: uniting the country and calming economic uncertainty

Gabriel Boric had just held a key meeting not only for his future presidency, but for the institutional architecture of the country.

He, who ten years ago walked the surrounding streets shouting slogans as a leader in the student marches, and she, Elisa Loncon, a historic Mapuche leader and president of the

, are the ones who are in charge in Chile.

In the midst of the human tide that followed Boric through the corridors of the former headquarters of the National Congress, a local journalist removed the president-elect for a moment from high politics and gave him back the young man he was until recently.

- President, are you going to bring Tool to Chile?

Boric, 35, was surprised, but long a short laugh, a "ha, I'd love to!" and he continued on his way to the gardens where he would attend to the press. It was not the time to think of a Californian band that combines progressive rock with psychedelic, a band that is

: "It blew my mind. The depth of the bass, the dark rhythm, the dirty power of their guitars , the explosion of his drums and the mystery of Maynard's (James Keenan) voice achieve a beautiful synthesis between anguish and freedom ".

Anguish and freedom were also 30 meters away, in one of the side streets. A van stopped and, while the president-elect began to explain what his visit to the Constituent Convention had consisted of, he turned on a loudspeaker to play the emblematic theme of

, "The right to live in peace," which 50 years ago he questioned the US invasion of Vietnam. And, after that issue that, reverted, once again rang out loudly once the social insurrection of October 2019 broke out, the clear request to the imminent president: release those imprisoned for the revolts of 2019.

These are those

, mostly young people who are still in jail today, about 200 people. On Monday there were already graffiti on the walls of Santiago streets. What they demand of the president-elect is that, once he takes office on March 11, he pardons and frees everyone. Boric already said this Tuesday, without saying it, that he will not do it: "We are going to respect the autonomy of the legislative power, and from the executive branch we are going to facilitate that these are resolved in the best possible way. Any statement that he makes in this regard has many implications, it is my duty to be careful. "

That is the most pressure he receives from the left wing of the coalition. From the more moderate wing, which includes parties that supported him in the ballot, but especially from the future center-right opposition, Boric is asked something else: to announce and who will be his Minister of Finance and Economy, to

. And Boric also says no: "Appointing the cabinet of ministers is an exclusive function of the President of the Republic. In general, it is appointed at the end of January."

But the important thing was another phrase: "We are totally committed to fiscal convergence, to macroeconomic balances, and we understand that the major reforms that we have proposed have to be done step by step, because if we don't get out of hand, because if we don't it goes backwards. In order for us to advance in unity and the changes to be lasting over time (...) the formation of large majorities is required. "

Boric's statements of this kind are not to the liking of the Communist Party, which is part of the I Approve Dignity list, winner of Sunday's elections. But the future president has been hinting for weeks now about his desire to broaden his support base with some parties of the Concertación, that center-left coalition that ruled Chile for 24 years since the

.

On Monday, during his visit to the Palacio de La Moneda, Boric had made a small bow before the bust of Salvador Allende.

This Tuesday, some 500 Chileans were waiting for him before the old Congress and under the inclement summer sun.

They were disappointed: in a diversionary maneuver, the president-elect left Congress through the opposite door to the one expected.

His followers were left alone, some of them singing songs from the campaign that led Allende to the presidency in 1970.

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