Chile’s President Gabriel Boric changed the political heart of his government on Tuesday, two days after appointing centre-left figures to key ministries such as the Interior Ministry. Massive rejection of a new constitution Which meant a hard blow for the ruling party.
“Chilean men and women, I want you to know what I do This cabinet changes keeping our country in mind. It hurt and it hurts because it is necessary,” Borik said, after taking oath of the new ministers who enter his government and sacking the outgoing ones.
Police sirens and the smell of tear gas, surrounded by hundreds of high school students, before the ceremony at the government palace in the center of Santiago Demand for more resources in educationHowever the chanting with anger pointed to the consequences of the rejection of the new Magna Carta which had created a constitutional convention.
on Sunday, Over 61% chose to decline that text Which was born after the violent social uprising of October 2019 in the election with the highest voter participation (85.8%) in the history of Chile.
Boric replaced his chief of staff, Izkiah Siches, and changed the ministry to Giorgio Jackson, one of his closest aides, who was in charge of relations with Congress.
I went with the president @gabrielboric In meeting with political parties to lay the foundation for a new constituent process.
We appreciate everyone’s wishes, with this joint work we will move towards a new Magna Carta that represents the entire country. pic.twitter.com/zWVwuWIpgN— Camila Vallejo Dowling (@camila_vallejo) September 7, 2022
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Instead of Siches — who said goodbye, apparently moved — Borrick assigned the portfolio of the Interior and Chief of Staff to political scientist Carolina Toha, a figure in the center-left governments that had taken office. After the end of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
Toha was a spokeswoman for the government of socialist Michelle Bachelet (2000–2006; 2010–2016) and a former mayor of Santiago. His father, José Toha, former minister of internal affairs to ousted socialist president Salvador Allende, died in 1974 as a result of torture.
Jackson was appointed head of the Ministry of Social Development, which was vacant.
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The announcement was made when protesters clashed with police outside the government palace. “And it’s about to fall… and it’s about to fall, Pinochet’s Constitution”, The secondary shouted, dissatisfied with the result of the referendum.
