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Marcel thanks Boric and commits dialogue “to complete an orderly way out of the crisis”
The appointed new and next Minister of Finance, Mario Marcel, issued a public statement in which thanked for the appointment and clarified that he was not present at the Natural History Museum because he was in home isolation “due to close contact with COVID-19.”
Marcel expressed his “deep gratitude” to President Boric for the confidence to take office. Likewise, he greeted the rest of the colleagues who will accompany him in the other ministries, qualifying the cabinet team as “committed, diverse and competent”.
The next head of the Treasury, pointed out that the entire team chosen by Gabriel Boric will have the responsibility “to respond to the wishes and hopes of a better country, expressed by citizens”.
“To this end, President Boric has committed important reforms in matters of health, pensions, taxes, productive development, decentralization, the environment, gender perspective, diversity and decent work, among others, reflected in the government program and commitment to programmatic implementation”, indicates the still president of the Central Bank.
Faced with that, it indicates that the role that has been requested includes “creating the economic, financial and operational conditions so that the commitments established with the citizens can be fulfilled”.
In that sense, he explained that the president-elect understands that these changes require “advance step by step, with dialogue and fiscal responsibility”.
Thus, Marcel expresses that he will form a “competent” ministerial team, capable of providing evidence, creativity and the capacity for dialogue to complete an orderly solution to the crisis that the country has experienced in recent years, reduce uncertainty in the economy, generate the resources and capacities required to implement the government’s agenda, control the growth of public debt and lay the foundations for sustained and sustainable growth in the coming years,” the document concludes.
