Boric makes his third cabinet change in a year and a half and removes four ministers

The president of Chili, Gabriel Boricmade his third cabinet change this Wednesday in a little less than a year and a half and removed the ministers of Education, Mining, National Assets and Culture.

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The ministers Marco Antonio Avila (Education), Marcela Hernando (Mining), Javiera Toro (National Assets) and James Aguirre (Culture) will be replaced by Nicolás Cataldo, Aurora Williams, Marcela Sandoval and Carolina Arredondo, respectively.

“To those who enter the cabinet today, I call on you to throw yourself fully into the mission of this government to advance a more just society”said Boric.

The adjustment occurs after weeks of pressure from the opposition and after the resignation last Friday as Minister of Social Development of Giorgio Jackson“right hand” of Boric and who had been cornered since June for a plot of alleged illegal subsidies to private foundations, known as “Agreement Case”.

The right-wing and far-right opposition had conditioned the negotiations of two key reforms (tax and pensions) to the exit of Jacksonbut on Saturday they raised the tone and said that it was not “enough”.

The ministerial adjustment is thus interpreted as a concession to the opposition and occurs one day before the parties of the historic rightgrouped in the coalition Chile Let’s gogo to The coin at the request of the president to resume negotiations on tax and pension reform, cornerstones of the official program.

“I would have liked this cabinet change to take place in a different political climate, without that tension that has been so prominent in recent days ”the president pointed out.

“Chili It will not forgive us if we are not capable of advancing in solutions where the diagnoses have been clear for years and if we do not advance in agreements to put an end, for example, to the drama of unfair pensions”, he added.

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BALANCE OF POWER

The change in the Education portfolio was one of the most anticipated, since the teachers have been threatening an indefinite strike for weeks and the former minister Avila he narrowly dodged the start of a political trial.

The replacement in Culture is the biggest surprise of this new remodeling because Aguirre He had only been in office for six months and there is less than a month left for the 50th anniversary of the military coup against Salvador Allende, a commemoration that depends on this portfolio.

Toro, for his part, leaves National Assets but he does not leave the Cabinet since he will replace Jackson in Social Development.

In the two previous ministerial adjustments, the moderate wing of the Government emerged reinforced, united in the Democratic Socialism coalition and made up of the traditional center-left parties that governed Chile since the fall of the dictatorship (1973-1990), to the detriment of the leftist I approve Dignity (Communist Party and the Broad Front of Boric).

This last change does not alter the balance of forces within the Government, which does not have a majority in Parliament and which has more than half the term left.

The first ministerial reshuffle took place in September, after more than 62% of Chileans rejected a proposal for a new Constitution progressive that had been supported by the Government, while the second was on March 10, one day before Boric completed a year in power.

Source: Elcomercio

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