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July 22, 2021 Interview with Javiera Martinez President of Rumbo Colectivo, Broad Front. Photo: Andres PerezJuly 22, 2021 Interview with Javiera Martinez President of Rumbo Colectivo, Broad Front. Photo: Andres Perez
Javiera Martínez has been part of Gabriel Boric’s candidacy from the beginning. He led the programmatic team to face the presidential primary. She was a spokesperson and gave some clues regarding what the government program would be.
“We need the private ones (…), the State cannot do it alone, but clearly with different rules,” he said. in an interview with Pulse following winning the presidential primaries.
Then he remained firm in that role for the first round, positioning itself as an expert in tax and fiscal matters, role he held to make the adjustments and incorporate the changes proposed by the Yasna Provoste and Marco Enríquez-Ominami teams. In fact, she, together with the lawyer Francisco Saffie, were the coordinators of the Tax Reform and Fiscal Convergence Commission.
And this followingnoon the future Budget Director of the Gabriel Boric government was appointed. Martínez is an industrial mining engineer from the Catholic University, with a master’s degree in Political Economy from New York University. She was an advisor in the cabinet of the Ministry of Education between 2014 and 2016, and her work focused on Michelle Bachelet’s educational reform projects, calculating the fiscal impact of some bills.
In particular, he worked on the New Public Education project. She is currently president of Rumbo Colectivo, a think tank for the Democratic Revolution, a party in which she is a member.