Former minister Karla Rubilar said that I Approve Dignity, the newly arrived coalition in La Moneda, will soon see how difficult it is to govern and that adherents are not enough. In her opinion, “the possibility of generating large agreements is no longer an option, it is a necessity and an ethical imperative.”
In this sense, he assured Third that “being an opposition is much easier than being a government,” arguing that “today they are going to find themselves with the dilemma of probably having to knock on the door of those who have often been hit by that harshness.”
“In order to govern, their own sector is not enough and they need, effectively, to generate spaces for understanding and dialogue,” warned the former head of Social Development of the government of Sebastián Piñera.
Asked about the mood in the current opposition and about the statements of the general secretary of the RN who spoke of “stunting” the new government, Karla Rubilar – a former member of said party – stated that “the path of revenge is not the one that our opposition should have”.
“The temptation of revenge or accountability that one could have for the hard times we had to live is not the right path, it is not the path that citizens expect from a responsible and fair opposition, because we are still living in crisis and we are in a process of truth that is building the future of Chile”.
So, he added, “we as the opposition have a responsibility, and those who have the majority leadership of the Constitutional Convention also have that responsibility (…)”. For former Minister Rubilar “the success of the Constitutional Convention is ultimately the success of all, so I believe, she reiterated, that the path of revenge or reckoning” is not the path that our opposition should take “.
On the spirit of revenge in the new government, Rubilar ruled it out: “We had opposition that in the most difficult and complex moments were available to finally accompany the institutionality, as it was, for example, in the great agreement of November 15. There, without a doubt, and it is fair to highlight the role played by President Gabriel Boric, who made the decision to sign this great agreement against his own supporters, and there were many politicians who were, in my opinion, up to the task,” he assured .
“I have always said that politics there did manage to represent the best that Chile has, and there was also an opposition that did not want to, that finally was in a position that was not in accordance with the democracy that we have built together, that is why I think that one It has to differentiate,” he said.
The step that this same opposition bloc took towards the Government, will show, according to the former minister, “how difficult it is to govern, and that one is not enough with the adherents, that one is not enough to talk to the people who voted for them , because the decisions that are made are decisions that affect all Chileans and all Chileans”.
“The possibility of generating large agreements is no longer an option, it is a necessity and an ethical imperative. Because otherwise we are going to see a country that needs to advance stalled, because part of what we experienced on October 18, and I try to highlight the great march on October 25, of more than one million 200 thousand people, two million in Chile; it is a great march that shows a Chile that wanted changes, in a transversal way,” he added.
