Chileans have voted this Sunday and have shown that yes, it can be done. You can look to the future and not to the dictatorial past. You can bet on the end of neoliberalism, of that economic "miracle" that leaves too many behind. Social improvements can be fought for in the streets and for this wave to reach the Executive and force changes. It is possible to break with the classic bipartisanship and make a firm government option take shape with a broad electoral base.

The victory of the leftist Gabriel Boric, at the head of Approving Dignity -an alliance between the Broad Front and the Communist Party-, opens a new time that, a month ago, did not seem so feasible. In the first round of the Chilean electoral system, the former student leader was only second, surpassed by the far-right José Antonio Kast. Last night, the scrutiny could not be clearer: 55.87% of the votes for Boric (almost ten points more than in November) and 44.13 for Kast. The loser could not help but assume the "great triumph" of his adversary, who has known how to redirect his speech towards the center, driving away ghosts of those who even aligned him with Chavismo.

Boric arrives making history, no matter how you look at it: he had the minimum age, 35, to run as a presidential candidate and he will finally take office from Sebastián Piñera at the age of 36, in February. He will be the youngest president of the country. With his sprint last month, he has also become the most voted president in Chile, an impressive guarantee to address the changes to come. It is also unusual to go to a second electoral round having lost the first and emerge victorious. All the tiredness of the past and the hope in the new, as he highlighted in his victory messages on social networks, has crystallized in this unprecedented legitimization. "We are facing a change in the historical cycle," defends Boric.