Chile: Gabriel Boric moderates his ministerial cabinet

Santiago. EFE

President Gabriel Boric removed from the front line two of his most sympathetic and mediatic ministers, Izkia Siches and Giorgio Jackson, strongly criticized by the opposition, and took a turn towards the center-left with the first remodeling in his six months of government .

A restructuring undertaken after the triumph of the rejection in the constitutional plebiscite on Sunday and that was marked by controversy after the president had to withdraw in less than an hour the appointment of a former student leader of the communist party as Undersecretary of the Interior in the face of criticism. right.

The departure of Siches from the Ministry of the Interior was a cry repeated by the opposition almost since she was appointed, and which grew in these six months due to the mistakes made by the minister herself, the apparent increase in crime and the escalation of violence. in the “southern macrozone”, the scene of an ancient conflict between settlers, the State, Mapuche communities and agricultural and logging multinationals.

In her place, the president appointed another woman, Carolina Tohá, a member of the moderate Party for Democracy (PPD), a policy that is also controversial for the opposition due to her political and family past.

Another of the most controversial figures in the cabinet was that of Giorgio Jackson, in charge of relations between the Executive and the Legislative, who received criticism from both the opposition and from the members of the coalition. Instead, Boric chose Ana Lya Uriarte, 60, a member of the Socialist Party, who served as Siches’s chief of staff.

Critics. The opposition criticized the remodeling, saying it was not “deep enough”. The conservative National Renovation party even assured that it will not attend the meeting called by the president: Boric “has not understood the tremendous defeat of his ideas.”

Source-larepublica.pe