Gabriel Boric has made a large room for the personalities of the left center, a sign of his will to compose with the congress, where he does not have the majority. Parity is not only symbolic, with women to strategic ministries.
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It was a very awaited ad. The President elected in Chile on December 19, 2021, Gabriel Boric (left), unveiled his office on Friday 21 January. Its twenty-four ministers, including fourteen women, make up a moderate mosaic, with many technicians and personalities independent of political parties. A cast that specifies the color of the start of the mandate of the next head of state – he will take office on March 11 -, while the youth and the eclecticism of his electoral coalition, bringing together the Communist Party in the Center left, as well as The ambition of the reforms announced, raised many unknowns.
The most observed name: the new Minister of Finance, Mario Marcel, 62, President of the Central Bank since 2016, international academic training, linked to the Socialist Party. He has held various positions in the left-left governments since 1990. “His appointment is a very important signal, he has strong links with the world of the company and the international markets, Analysis Jaime Baeza, Politist at the Institute Public affairs of the University of Chile. As President of the Central Bank, he held the line of an implacable discipline. It is also a proof of transversality: his mandate had just been renewed by [the President coming out of the right] Sebastian piñera. “
While the economic situation “promises to be complex, abounds Robert Funk, Politist within the same institute, Gabriel Boric understands that beyond its long list of election promises, the country’s finances must be healthy.”. The first site of the minister will be the reform of taxes, whom the elected President intends to increase 5% of GDP, while the major social change – education, pensions and public health system, in particular – will weigh on the finances of the State.
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The Minister of Finance embodies, moreover, the beautiful part of the left center figures, more represented in the government than in the electoral coalition of Gabriel Boric. A clear signal for the negotiations in the Congress, where the elected state head does not enjoy the majority, and where it will be essential to weave links with the pivotal forces of the center.
It is not a coincidence that the General Secretariat of the Presidency, responsible for relations with the Congress, will be occupied by Giorgio Jackson, the man of confidence of the president elected, also thirty and companion to fight movement 2011 students. The Communist Party occupies a rather circumscribed but non-anecdotal place, particularly with Camila Vallejo at the spokesperson – it also derived from this new generation of the left.
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