Gabriel Boric renews his cabinet one year after starting the government of Chile

«What motivates me to make these changes (…) are not political pressures or minor compensation; The purpose of these changes is our ability to respond and improve management,” said the President of Chile this Friday, March 10.

R.F.I. | AFP

The president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, changed his chancellor and four other ministers this Friday, in a renewal of his cabinet a year after assuming power as the youngest president in the country’s history.

After the harsh defeat suffered this week in Congress by the rejection of a tax reform Considered key to his government, the president said that he made adjustments to his team, with a focus on improving management and balancing the forces of the left-wing coalition that accompanies him.

«What motivates me to make these changes (…) are not political pressures or minor compensation; The purpose of these changes is our ability to respond and improve management,” said the president at the swearing-in ceremony at the La Moneda presidential palace.

This is the second cabinet change that Boric has made during his first year in government, which he celebrates this Saturday.

The renovation reached the ministries of Foreign Relations, Public Works, Culture, Sports and Sciences. It also made changes in 15 sub-secretariats.

*Read also: Estelar resumes the Caracas-Santiago de Chile route from #11Mar

The new composition changes the hegemony of women in the cabinet and now there is parity: 12 ministers and 12 ministers. Before there were 14 women and 10 men in the ministerial cabinet.

It leaves intact the Political Committee and the economic team, which has managed to show good figures at the local level.

The former Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs during the first government of Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010) and Chile’s agent at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Albero van Klaveren, will replace former Foreign Minister Antonia Urrejola.

Urrejola had been in office since the beginning of the government. This year, his administration has been marked by the stamp of his own that Chile has printed in matters of foreign policy, with a Boric who has not hesitated to call the government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua a “dictatorship” and has been highly critical of Nicolás Maduro. In Venezuela.

In Public Works, the former president of Banco Estado Jessica López will take over, the former director of Televisión Nacional de Chile will do so in Culture, while the former professional soccer player Jaime Pizarro will take over the Sports portfolio.

The lawyer Aisén Etcheverry will head the Ministry of Sciences.

Post Views: 326