In his speech to the General Assembly, on Sept. 24, Chile’s president, Gabriel Boric, officially endorsed Michelle Bachelet as a candidate. She is a former two-time president of the country, an ex-UN high commissioner for human rights and current Club de Madrid vice president. Boric praised her ability to “build bridges between the North and the South, between the East and the West.” Elsewhere from the region, Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader also said “the time has come for a woman to lead the United Nations.”
