The Minister of Finance, Rodrigo Cerda, sent some farewell words to the audience, during this day: “My last radio message to Chileans is that we really tried to do everything possible, thinking about the situation we were in. If we are wrong, as the President has said, we apologize, but I also hope that they realize that we have tried to do everything humanly possible”.
This message issued in conversation with Cooperative, Minister Cerda made a balance of the economic management of the Government of Sebastián Piñera in these four years, in which he highlighted the will of the outgoing administration on mitigating the fall in household income due to the pandemic.
Likewise, he highlighted his efforts to prevent and reduce the loss of jobs and reactivate economic activity.
“The country has had a hard time, but we have tried to react. Sometimes maybe we didn’t do it the way we should have done right away, but I do hope they realize that we tried to react and it wasn’t easy. , because the mechanisms were not available”, declared Minister Cerda.
“It was about making an effort that was important and that at least with the passage of time we hope that it will also be a well-recognized effort,” he continued.
The minister who leaves the Treasury, assured that Chileans will fondly remember the IFE, and in turn highlighted the complications during the government.
“It gave me the impression that we were doing important things, I had a lot to participate in the IFE, in the SME bonds, in the Universal Guaranteed Pension and I think that these are things that are going to remain for Chileans in the medium term and for We also believe that when this government is remembered, it will be remembered with very difficult moments, very complicated,” he added.
Finally, Cerda argued that Chile has all the conditions to generate higher rates of economic growth and to achieve this it is essential to generate certainty for the investor world.
“We have had such tough discussions, so polarized and that have generated so much uncertainty that they have also unfortunately led to investments being postponed. Therefore, growth is not at stake and it is part of what we have to do”, he emphasized.
