The Minister of Social Development and Family, Giorgio Jackson, assured this Sunday that “in no case” is his political coalition “postponed”, when addressing in the TVN program “National State” the relations that have been generated between the Government and the political coalitions Frente Amplio and Socialismo Democrático.
In particular, the host of the program, Matías del Río, asked him about his vision about the opinion of some people of his generation who would have felt “postponed” within the Government itself. In this regard, the minister replied that “I do not feel that way.”
“I feel that this is a government that, although with the votes it came through a presidential candidacy from a political coalition and another political coalition is invited to form a government alliance, I believe that beyond the friction, the tensions that there may have been, which should not be ignored, many conversations have also been generated between leaders of the different blocks, which I believe no longer make the division between two government blocks so simple, but I believe that relationships are intertwined that go much further,” he added.
“But that is no longer so given and I say it with full knowledge of the facts by the people who are in the different coalitions. It is not so given by someone who is from one coalition or another, but by conditions of courage in political terms that can have one or the other,” he emphasized.
“And I am not saying that some are good and others are bad, because we are clear that we have a minority in both Chambers of Congress, therefore, I believe that this coexistence is a natural part of a government that has a very ambitious agenda, that has a minority in both Chambers and that, therefore, there is a debate on what is the political thesis for which to advance, added to the contingencies that have occurred,” Jackson stated.
Learnings
“I think that in generational terms there has also been something very virtuous, which I think also with some setbacks at the beginning, in which obviously lessons are learned, I would say that there is a very virtuous mix among those of us who have reached the Executive power (. ..) with people who come with a lot of experience”, he added.
“And the same happens between Ministries, therefore, I would say that our generation or our political coalition is in no way postponed, but that we have had to know what it means to govern between different sensibilities; weave relationships that are no longer antagonistic, but that they have to be virtuous,” said the Secretary of State.
“I would say that what a government does when it does not achieve a majority in a first round and invites one in a second round, what it does is invite a team to a football match, so to speak, and therefore , in the team one says, ‘hey, and who plays better in each position?’, (…) it goes through moments, this week it was Minister Jeannette Jara’s turn to shine and score a goal at 40 Hours, others weeks have been different, but the grace is that when one works as a team, one has to look at the scoreboard, how far are we going? and how far are we going is from the entire government team,” he clarified.
In these same soccer terms, the authority was consulted about the ‘marker’ that the Government currently has, to which it replied that “it is uphill, but I think we have removed it, as we say at the University of Chile, we turn it around “.
