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Weekly Report - 05 June 2025 (WR-25-22)
CHILE: Boric delivers provocative final address
President Gabriel Boric delivered his final official state-of-the-nation address to congress on 1 June. Boric, whose term concludes in March 2026, flagged up two initiatives that will ruffle feathers in the right-wing opposition ahead of presidential and congressional elections on 16 November: one to relax abortion restrictions and one to end the privileges of those serving sentences for human rights abuses during the 1973-1990 military dictatorship at the Punta Peuco prison. Boric also reasserted his government’s guiding foreign policy principles in defence of democracy and human rights, and he reserved some excoriating criticism for the Israeli government.
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