Gabriel Boric says that he will appoint “as soon as possible” a cabinet “that grants certainties” to Chile

The brand new president-elect of Chile, the leftist Gabriel BoricHe said this Monday that he will appoint his cabinet “as soon as possible”, predictably before the end of January, and that it will be a team “that grants certainties.”

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“We are aware that it is important for the country to grant certainty. We are going to act accordingly, at this time we do not have names that I can make public “said the former student leader at a press conference in La Moneda (government headquarters) after meeting with the outgoing president, Sebastián Piñera.

In the future cabinet, “Women are going to be the protagonists” and “sure” that there will be independents, said the presidential candidate of the Broad Front and the Communist Party and who appeared together with their campaign bosses, Izkia Sichez Y George Jackson, which sound like ministerial letters.

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The encounter with Pinera It was the first official act of Boric after the overwhelming victory on Sunday, when he won by 55.8% support and more than ten points of difference against the far-right José Antonio Kast.

The elected president of Chile, Gabriel Boric (right), shakes the hand of President Sebastián Piñera, during a meeting at the presidential palace of La Moneda, on December 20, 2021. (Photo: AFP).

At 35, Boric is the youngest elected head of state in the history of Chile and also the one with the highest vote, with 4.6 million votes.

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“It seems relevant to me to highlight the character of the State that (the meeting) has and the continuity of the State beyond the legitimate political differences that sometimes, as is the case, can be very large,” acknowledged the still deputy for the southern region of Magallanes.

During the meeting, Boric and Piñera spoke about the importance of “continuity” in international relations, the pandemic, the economic reactivation, the transfer of power and the legal cases against security agents for alleged human rights violations during the wave. protests in 2019.

Result of the elections in Chile. (AFP).

“One of our priorities in the Government is going to be that there is truth, justice, reparation and, by the way, no repetition,” added Boric, who on Sunday prevailed in eleven of the 16 regions of the country and swept the capital.

Minutes after his successor left the presidential palace, Piñera indicated in a brief public appearance that he offered him “all the collaboration so that the transfer of command is very republican.”

A staunch critic of the neoliberal model installed during the military dictatorship (1973-1990), Boric promises a profound agenda of changes to expand the role of the State towards a welfare model similar to that of Europe, with an environmentalist, feminist and regionalist accent.

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