Gabriel Boric was the protagonist of this Saturday of an unusual situation in a children’s park from Punta Arenas, the city he went to to participate in the Constituent Council elections this Sunday. The president of Chile has thrown himself down a slide and momentarily blocked at the start of that game.

“how funny it is… Here he comes out, our President of the Republic froze. I can’t believe it,” said the woman who recorded a video that quickly went viral on social media between laughter and jokes.

Boric entered the entertainment tube located in a square located on the Costanera, facing the Strait of Magellan, but when he came out he did not succeed. To free himself, he had to resort to force and different movements of his body.

“After ten minutes of getting stuck in the chute and breaking it, our president came out,” completed the same woman who captured the sequence on her cell phone.

Second Radio Bio Bio of Chile, sources in the presidency have maintained that Boric enjoyed himself a day off with your familybefore participating this Sunday in the election of 50 constitutional advisers who will analyze the proposal for a new Magna Carta for the country.

Boric arrived Thursday evening in Punta Arenas, his hometown and where he delivers his electoral speech.

Just over 15 million people have the right to vote in what will be the second time an attempt has been made to change the Constitution inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The previous process failed after the text drawn up by 155 conventions was rejected by a majority in the plebiscite of 4 September last.

“I believe that in our country there has long been a need to adapt the rules that govern us to the times we live in and I believe that the majority of the Chilean people have spoken out in that direction,” said Boric. arrival in the capital of the Magellan region.

And he added: “Now it will decide who will exercise the constitutional process. It is not up to me, due to the electoral ban, to refer to the specific political contingency, but I deeply trust in the democratic wisdom of the Chilean people and I have no doubts that we will have an exemplary day, in terms of both participation and democratic deepening”.