The President of Chile, Gabriel Borichinted this Sunday that he would make changes in his cabinet in the coming days following the resounding triumph of the “Rejection” in the constituent plebiscite.
“Facing these important and urgent challenges will require prompt adjustments in our government teams to face this new period with renewed vigor,” the president said on national television shortly following the result was known.
The possibility of a change in government by Gabriel Boric It had been planned for a few weeks before the forecasts of the polls, which for months had predicted a victory for the “Rejection”. Added to this are the mistakes made by some of his ministers.
Own Boric He assured during a cabinet meeting one month following his inauguration in April that they had “taken off with turbulence.”
Siches, the first woman to occupy the powerful portfolio of the Interior, is the center of criticism following her eventful trip to southern Araucanía and following she accused the previous Administration of irregular deportations, statements for which she later apologized.
The Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Giorgio Jackson, is another of the names that has received criticism for his management of the relationship between the Executive and the Legislative by the opposition and the moderate sector of the ruling party.
Another focus was the worsening of the “Mapuche conflict” and the escalation of violence in the area, which is one of the most complex issues that Boric has to deal with and last week he claimed the first casualty in his cabinet.
The former Minister of Social Development Jeannette Vega submitted her resignation a day following the arrest of Héctor Llaitul following it was leaked that one of her advisers contacted the Mapuche leader in May.
The ‘rejection’ of the proposal for a new Constitution is imposed
The Chilean Electoral Service (Servel) has reported that, according to preliminary data, the ‘rejection’ of the referendum on the draft of a new Constitution has a wide advantage over the ‘approval’.
With 23 percent of the tables counted, the ‘rejection’ obtains 62.92 percent of the votes, while the ‘approval’ obtains 37.02 percent of the ballots.
According to information from the Electoral Service of Chile, of these votes, 1.46 percent have been null, while 0.58 percent have been blank votes.
(With information from EFE agency)