Former Minister of Finance for Michelle Bachelet’s second term, Rodrigo Valdés appeared as one of the members of the Amarillos por Chile movement, led by professor and constituent Cristián Warnken and whose conglomerate broke into the Constitutional Convention a week ago criticizing the “maximalism” of the organ.
So through a letter to The Mercuryduring this Monday, the economist completely disassociated himself from being part of the group: “I would like to clarify that I was invited to sign a letter that calls for greater dialogue in the Convention and I was never consulted whether or not I ascribed to a new movement ”.
The former portfolio holder had been integrated as a “subscriber” to the Amarillos por Chile proposal, along with former ministers Alejandro Foxley and Andrés Velasco.
“I think that the future of politics lies in strengthening parties, not in the proliferation of groups,” added Valdés.
“We will support the work of the Convention if it advances in the indicated democratic direction, but we will exercise the legitimate and necessary right to criticize if the Convention goes astray and leads us into an alley No Exit. Failure to do so would be irresponsible. We are worried, we set off the alarms and turning them on does not mean being catastrophic. A catastrophe would be to arrive at an unpresentable text at the end of the discussion or not having any text to present”, they pointed out as a movement in a manifesto published last Friday.
“This is our first statement, but it won’t be the last. We want many Chileans who today feel politically orphaned, know that the Yellows are here and now, at this moment decisive of our history”, they maintained. “We are more, join us and let the yellow flag flies in the sky of Chile in these decisive months to come”.
