The mayor of Recoleta and member of the Communist Party (PC), Daniel Jadue, was emphatic that he will not be part of the future government, however he insisted on a position that earned him some criticism during the victorious presidential campaign of Approve Dignidad.
The mayor of the PC had reiterated his support for the candidate of the future government coalition, Gabriel Boric, but assuring that in case the standard-bearer “twists a millimeter” of his presidential program “they will have me first in line of complaint and collecting it”.
According to what the former presidential candidate said at that time, Boric “today represents an opportunity for transformation, and it is because of his program.” Daniel Jadue maintains his position and, in an interview with The Mercury, He said that, today, “the only risk I see is that the program is not fulfilled and that we defraud the citizenry again and end up being one more government than those that promised to attend to Chile’s pain and were unable to do so.”
“The risk is that people become disillusioned again,” he said.
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Daniel Jadue put the focus, in any case, on the fact that he is mayor of Recoleta and his fundamental functions are there. In addition, he commented to the morning paper that “there is no conglomerate of mayors of the Broad Front, less so now that the government conglomerate has changed a lot.”
As to whether he feels integrated into Approve Dignity, Mayor Jadue said that “I will wait to answer that when the government starts to work and the program is executed.”
The PC militant also addressed the work of the new administration of the Executive —led by Gabriel Boric—, in relation to the conflict between the Chilean State and the Mapuche People, specifically in La Araucanía and in several southern provinces, in what is also called Wallmapu.
In the so-called “Southern Macrozone”, in the provinces of Biobío and Arauco, in the Biobío Region; and those of Cautín and Malleco, in La Araucanía, govern the emergency constitutional state of exception (EECE). This has been ratified several times by La Moneda and we will see if the new government will decree its extension.
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The mayor of the PC does not see it as a complicated issue and was convinced that “if steps are taken in the direction of solving the problems, violence should drop significantly.”
Asked about the current situation in the south, the community chief commented that, for example, the elected president has strongly condemned the invasion of Ukraine, “and we all condemn it.” In this sense, Daniel Jadue drew a parallel: “What is happening in the south is the invasion of one country into another country and we had international treaties. I hope that he will act accordingly.”
Jadue reflected: “We said that whoever won it was going to become the President of Chile and that is what happened. And he was also going to become President with a program that was going to initiate the transformations that the country had been demanding. something today a right-wing government, of the extreme right, as each one wants to see it, is going to be replaced by one that has been modifying, by virtue of the electoral results of the Congress, the axis of the coalition, but that was elected as a left government.
Regarding the work of the Constitutional Convention, the communist mayor stated that “it does not define that a government for a new Constitution is more or less from the left. The new Constitution is not going to define the character of the government, the new Constitution defines the character of Chile future we want to build. And he assured that he is not afraid that the constituent process could fall.
“There is a Constitutional Convention that was democratically elected that is under siege; what’s more, the irresponsible Chairman of the Servel board, Tagle, comes out to say that it is undemocratic. There is a direct attack on the Convention because the extreme right, in which he is active, in the UDI, he does not like what is happening because it puts his interests at risk,” he said, adding that “I can assure you that the process will continue, that the Constitution that will come out of it, more Regardless of whether I like it completely or not, it will be 1,200 times better than the one that the UDI did with Pinochet behind closed doors during the dictatorship,” he concluded.
