Gabriel Boric
President of Chile since 2022
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| February 2025 | Revealed that he and Paula Carrasco are expecting a baby girl. |
| January 2025 | Became the first head of state to visit the South Pole, making a groundbreaking diplomatic and exploratory journey to Antarctica. |
| December 2 2024 | Announced via Instagram that he and his partner Paula Carrasco are expecting their first child together. |
| November 26 2024 | Prosecutors announced a criminal case against Boric involving sexual harassment allegations from 2013-2014, which Boric denied. The allegations related to a period when he was an intern in Punta Arenas. |
| November 2023 | Boric and Karamanos announced the end of their relationship. |
| October 2023 | Boric stated that Israel's attacks in the Israel-Hamas war primarily affected unarmed civilians and potentially constituted a war crime. |
| August 2023 | Boric's approval rating remains around 30%, with a majority of public disapproval. |
| August 2023 | Boric reorganized his Cabinet for the third time in one-and-a-half years, amid low approval ratings, voter concerns over crime and inflation, and an ongoing corruption probe. |
| June 2023 | Due to the Democracia Viva case, Boric's approval rating falls back to 28%. |
| June 2023 | After a State of the Nation address, Boric's approval rating temporarily rises from 31% to 41%. |
| May 2023 | Boric's public approval rating is 28%, with a significant disapproval rating of 66%. |
| March 8 2023 | Boric suffered a political setback when the Chamber of Deputies, by one vote, refused to open a debate on his major tax reform proposal. |
| January 2023 | Boric's approval rating further declines to 25% in January. |
| January 9 2023 | Gabriel Boric was awarded the Order of Boyacá, the highest civil decoration from Colombia, in Santiago. |
| 2022 | Received the Grand-Master (Collar) of the Order of Merit, a national Chilean honour recognizing significant contributions to the country. |
| 2022 | Gabriel Boric began his presidency, becoming one of the youngest presidents in Chilean history. |
| 2022 | After first 100 days in office, Boric's approval rating dramatically drops to 32.8%, the most significant decline for a Chilean President since 1990. |
| 2022 | Gabriel Boric's government established grace pensions up to 515,672 Chilean pesos for individuals who suffered human rights violations during the 2019-2020 protests. |
| December 2022 | Karamanos dissolved the institutional prerogatives of the First Lady role. |
| December 2022 | By the end of 2022, Boric's approval rating remains low at around 33%, with nearly 60% of people disapproving of his performance. |
| December 12 2022 | Gabriel Boric received the Grand Order of King Tomislav, the highest civil decoration from Croatia, in a ceremony in Santiago. |
| September 2022 | The Constitutional Convention presented a draft constitution described as progressive. In a national plebiscite, the proposed constitution was rejected, with 62% voting against and 38% in favor. |
| September 15 2022 | Declined to receive credentials of Israeli Ambassador Gil Artzyeli, protesting child casualties during the Gaza-Israel clashes, which triggered a diplomatic crisis between Chile and Israel. |
| September 4 2022 | A constitutional referendum is held in Chile, in which voters reject the proposed new constitution that Boric had supported, dealing a significant political setback to his administration. |
| July 4 2022 | Completion of the constitutional drafting process, four months into Gabriel Boric's presidential term. |
| May 2022 | In an interview on Televisión Nacional de Chile, Boric reiterated concerns about the forestry industry's impact on Mapuche communities. |
| May 2022 | President Gabriel Boric deployed troops to the southern part of Chile in response to escalating violence in the Mapuche conflict, a decision that caused him to lose support from the Communist Party. This marked a significant shift from his previous stance of distancing himself from similar measures taken by his predecessor. |
| April 2022 | Boric announced a $3.7 billion economic recovery plan, including a minimum wage hike to address high inflation. |
| April 2022 | Conducted first international presidential trip to Argentina, meeting with President Alberto Fernández to discuss bilateral relations and territorial disputes. |
| March 11 2022 | Boric was inaugurated as the President of Chile, taking office after his electoral victory. |
| February 2022 | Publicly condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine, expressing solidarity with victims and calling for peace through diplomatic efforts. |
| January 2022 | Jair Bolsonaro announced he would not attend Boric's presidential inauguration after Boric criticized Bolsonaro's stance on Brazil's military dictatorship. |
| January 2022 | Mario Marcel was announced as the finance minister, which prompted a positive reaction from the Santiago Stock Exchange, with the IPSA rising by 2.35%. |
| January 2022 | Boric announced his cabinet, which included fourteen women out of 24 ministers, creating the first cabinet in the Americas with a female majority. The cabinet included Chile's first openly LGBT ministers Alexandra Benado and Marco Antonio Ávila, as well as Maya Fernández, granddaughter of former president Salvador Allende. |
| 2021 | During his presidential campaign, Boric pledged to dismantle Chile's neoliberal economic model and supported LGBT rights, including legal recognition of non-binary identities. |
| December 19 2021 | Boric won the presidential runoff election with 55.85% of the vote, defeating far-right candidate José Antonio Kast. |
| November 21 2021 | Boric participated in the first round of the presidential election, obtaining 25.82% of the vote and securing second place behind José Antonio Kast's 27.91%, which qualified him for the runoff election. |
| October 2021 | Boric and other deputies introduced a bill to prohibit importing products from Israeli settlements considered illegal by the international community. |
| July 19 2021 | Gabriel Boric won the primary election, receiving 1,059,060 votes (60.4%), defeating Daniel Jadue who received 39.6% of the votes. He became the most voted candidate in the general primary, surpassing all candidates from the coalition. |
| July 4 2021 | The Constitutional Convention began drafting a new proposed constitution during former President Sebastián Piñera's administration. |
| June 30 2020 | End of the period for human rights violations during protests, marking the conclusion of the documented period of social conflict. |
| 2019 | Began a relationship with anthropologist and sociologist Irina Karamanos. |
| 2019 | After receiving a gift from the Jewish Community of Chile, Boric called for Israel to return occupied Palestinian territories in a tweet. |
| 2019 | Plays a crucial role in negotiating the agreement during Chile's civil unrest that leads to the October 2020 constitutional referendum. |
| December 20 2019 | Faced a public confrontation at Parque Forestal where he was verbally attacked and had beer and spit thrown at him, being called a 'traitor' and 'sell-out' due to his political negotiations, but maintained his composure during the incident. |
| November 15 2019 | Signed the 'Agreement for Social Peace and the New Constitution' as an individual, which caused internal party divisions and led to resignations from some of his political allies, including his personal friend Jorge Sharp. |
| October 18 2019 | Start of the period for human rights violations during protests, marking the beginning of significant social unrest in Chile. |
| October 18 2019 | Boric emerged as a vocal critic during the 'Social Outburst' protests in Santiago, opposing the government's response and confronting soldiers deployed in Plaza Italia during widespread civil unrest against transport tariffs and systemic inequalities. |
| 2018 | Boric took a leave of absence from Congress after being hospitalized due to his obsessive-compulsive disorder. |
| 2018 | Founds the Social Convergence party, which becomes part of the Broad Front coalition. |
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