During this day, the change of presidential command was experienced in the National Congress in Valparaíso, where Gabriel Boric assumed as the new President of the Republic of Chile. The new Ministers of State were also sworn in, among them, George Jackson, new head of SEGPRES. At the end of the ceremony, Jackson referred to the agreements that must be reached with the new parliament.
“We know that we have a Congress that has enormous diversity with the number of political parties there are and the complexity that it will mean to reach the majority of the agreements,” said the Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency.
Despite this, he emphasized that “as a government we are determined to reach agreements so that the changes that are made are sustainable over time.”
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The minister also had words about the election of the president of the Senate, which remained in the hands of the parliamentarian of the Socialist Party, Alvaro Elizalde. “We appreciate that an agreement has been reached that allows a governance of both Chambers to have the representation of the different forces.”
«In the Senate a distribution of both blocks and in the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies a distribution was achieved that in six periods have different forces in the hemicycle. We look forward to working with all tables on the legislative agenda,” he added.
When asked about the government’s determination to withdraw the complaints for the State Security Law, he pointed out that: “This was said in the campaign, it should not be a surprise, because in the context of the social outbreak, what the government is interested in is being able to heal certain wounds. That implies recognizing that there were violations of Human Rights and having all the truth, justice, reparation and the guarantee of non-repetition.
