Government indicates “having the confidence to overcome this adversity” before request for ministerial change

The first 100 days of the Government of the President Gabriel Boric they have not been easy nor have they been exempt from controversy, which is why some parliamentarians, including the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Raul Soto (PPD), have requested a possible cabinet change to “correct the course and reorder the house.”

Before these statements, the government spokesperson minister, Camila Vallejospecified that the Executive “has cabinet meetings every month and in the last one we reaffirm the main task we have to push our program, strengthen our collective work, which is extremely important because all programmatic commitments require the joint work of the different ministries” .

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“We know the critical evaluation that citizens may have about our ability to correctly comply with the commitments to change and when we have episodes that cast doubt on that, we actually see, with good reason, that there may be a critical perception of citizens,” he said. in CNN Chile.

Under this line, Vallejo referred to the controversial episode of the “Cabinet Irina Karamanos“, stating that “what we have pointed out is that here there is a plan that has been worked on and that you will soon also be able to know, about how it is going to be executed, what the president also promised and what Irina herself has proposed, which is a concrete change of overcoming an institution that, as we have been knowing it for decades, we consider to be archaic and that must be overcome. That has been worked on and that is why we regret that the focus has been diverted due to an error.

self-criticism

The Secretary of State also expressed that they are self-critical with their work: “In each collective meeting, whether of the political committee or the entire cabinet, we review the steps we have taken, both right and wrong, to improve and in that the The mandate is clear from the last meeting, to reinforce our collective interministerial work and continue to fulfill it,” he assured.

In addition, he added that “of the 13 messages presented, five are already law, we have a legislative agenda deployed, we have a plan of measures that already has a significant level of execution such as the Chile Supports plan, but we know that it is not enough, that we have to continue developing with greater intensity the different plans that we have”.

In this context, the government spokeswoman assured that “we still have many challenges, the scenario of our country is not easy, it is difficult, but we are confident that in the face of this adversity we will be able to take decisive steps to overcome it and be able to guarantee better living conditions. “.

However, he also stressed that “not everything depends on the Government, there is a complex international situation that is affecting our country, we know that different agents that participate in the elaboration of public policies such as Congress, different types of authorities and organizations of the civil authority, but what concerns us, at least as a Government, is to continue reinforcing the work, obviously improving collective work, coordination and, therefore, carrying out or deploying a programmatic and legislative agenda in the best way possible”.