Despite the fact that several of them had their fangs sharpened, the minister was ratified in his position by the President himself. Some voices from the PS even called for putting aside “political pettiness.”
Removing minister Giorgio Jackson from office was not as easy as some socialist lawmakers thought. Despite the fact that there were some who asked him to “step aside”, this Thursday the minister received a boost from Gabriel Boric himself. “You have my support, you have my support”said the President.
President Boric’s accolade to Giorgio: “Minister Jackson has my support” https://t.co/YqzjY3Lhks
– The Bewilderment (@eldesconcert) August 4, 2022
Also, the Communist Party made a maneuver to legitimize him in his role: They were open to attaching reforms to the new Constitution before the Plebiscite, but their ideas will be passed on to Minister Jackson, validating him as an interlocutor.
“We are going to deliver our proposals to him and we hope that everyone will deliver them to him,” announced the CP helmsman, Guillermo Teillier.
The same effect had on a good part of the bench of deputies of the PS. “Encouraging generational disputes or installing debates on coalitions divert us from the main thing: fulfill the government program and win the most important election since the return to democracy. There is no room for political pettinessneither in the government nor in Congress,” socialist deputy Juan Santana reproached his peers.
Encouraging generational disputes or setting up debates on coalitions divert us from the main thing: fulfilling the government’s program and winning the most important election since the return to democracy. There is no room for political pettiness, neither in the government nor in Congress
– Deputy Juan Santana (@Juan_SantanaC) August 4, 2022
tweet of the day
The pollster and founder of MORI Chile, Marta Lagosdenied a report by Third regarding an alleged presentation of figures to the Approval command that would have been developed in a “reserved” manner. On his Twitter account, she assured that the published data does not correspond to the Barometer data that he will present this Friday.
We reiterate that the data published by @latercera are wrong, the source of the data is also wrong. That data is not in the public domain yet and there is no document to back it up, and they haven’t confirmed it with us.
— Marta Lagos (@mmlagoscc) August 4, 2022
video of the day
A tense moment starred the lawyer Fernando Atria (FA) and the deputy Camila Flores (RN) on justice systems in the new Constitution. The ex-conventionalist read article 112 repeatedly to clarify that “there can be no indigenous crimes and there can be no indigenous penalties.”
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