The president outlines a cabinet with more moderates from the ruling coalition to the detriment of left-wing forces
Balance the scales. That will be the main aim of the change of government completed by Chilean president, leftist Gabriel Boric, after Sunday’s resounding popular rejection of a more progressive constitution. The refusal of 62 percent of voters to bury the Magna Carta, inherited from the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, in the polls has accelerated the rebuilding of a cabinet already questioned for “the mistakes” of some ministers and above all because of the imbalances in the distribution of power among the coalition forces.
Boric, although he has not yet announced a date to announce the changes to his Executive, put forward his intentions on Tuesday during a meeting with the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Raúl Soto and member of the Party for Democracy (PPD) , who is part of the cabinet. “There will be a change of direction in the leadership of the government as the coup must be carried out in relation to what happened on Sunday,” Soto assured after the meeting.
Taking the result of the constitutional plebiscite as a reference, Boric’s idea is to give a greater presence to the moderate formations that make up the official alliance. Not in vain, currently the center-left, represented by Democratic Socialism (SD), is in a clear minority compared to the left-wing forces integrated under the umbrella of Approve Dignidad (AD).
“In the new cabinet formation, there will have to be more presence of ministers and ministers close by or militant from this sector to prove with facts that the president has read correctly that the citizenry is for moderate, gradual changes,” the dean of the faculty explained. out to Eph. from the government of the Central University, Marco Moreno, for whom “it is time for the president to correct the imbalance between AD and SD.”
The projected scenario is that the center-left invades the interior of the political committee, the body closest to Boric and where the most relevant decisions are made. This core currently consists of the Minister for Women, Antonia Orellana, the Government Spokesperson, Camila Vallejo, the Head of the Treasury, Mario Marcel, and the Ministers of the Interior, Izkia Siches, and the Secretariat General of the Presidency, Giorgio Jackson. The latter two are two of the names that have received the most criticism from the opposition for managing their respective portfolios.
Source: La Verdad
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