One of the key teams for the political functioning of La Moneda that starts on Friday, March 11, are the advisors of the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (Segpres). There, around the Patio de las Camelias, are the offices of the portfolio that has the mission of managing relations between the Executive and Legislative powers.
It is a mission that in the incoming government already looks uphill: there is no majority in Congress. And in the Senate, relations begin much more tense than usual, among other things because the future of the Upper House is at stake in the proposal for a new Constitution.
In fact, the task of the pair composed of George Jackson as minister and Macarena Lobos As undersecretary, she has two times on the horizon: to begin the processing of the key reforms for the first year of government, and also to work on the readjustment of laws and contents in the event that the new Magna Carta is approved in the Plebiscite of Exit.
For this mission, Jackson has already signed his main advisers – most of them lawyers – and division heads. The first to join was the lawyer Francisca Moya, who will be the new legal head of Segpres. Her position was confirmed at the end of January, as it is one of the most sensitive positions in that ministry.
Moya is part of the “Pío Nono” circle, alluding to the lawyers who met in the courtyards of the Law School of the University of Chile during the years of the 2011 student movement and which coincided with the President-elect Gabriel Boric.
The professional has a master’s degree in public law from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is a doctoral candidate from the University of Glasgow. She was an active contributor to Boric’s presidential campaign.
But he has an advantage: he knows the secrets of Segpres. Dduring the second government of Michelle Bachelet It was part of that portfolio. At that time he worked with William Garcíawho was in charge of the division headed by Francisca Moya from Friday, March 11.
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Study centers such as Rumbo Colectivo, Nodo XXI, Casa Común and Saberes Colectivos, and others such as OPES and Ical, are the replacement following the years in which Cieplan, Igualdad or LyD nurtured past governments.
In fact, from the same period other lawyers are added: Nicholas Facusewho arrives as head of the Political Relations Division, and Valeria Luebbert: will assume the Executive Secretariat of the Public Integrity and Transparency Commission.
Facuse (PS) also went through the Segpres in Bachelet II, in the area that he will lead from Friday the 11th. He is a member of the Equality Institute, linked to the PS and part of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Chile (FES Chile). He has been for years legislative adviser to socialist senators and that can serve as a bridge before an Upper House that today appears more elusive for the future minister Jackson.
Valeria LuebbertMeanwhile, he also knows the work of the team he joins. She was coordinator of the Legal Division of Segpres between 2014 and 2018. Until her appointment, she served as director of Democracy and Anticorruption of Public space. In addition, she was an assistant lawyer for the Constitutional Court (TC) and has specialized in the probity agenda.
Added to this team is the lawyer and master’s degree in management and public policy from the U. de Chile Joseph Inostrozawho will be the new boss Digital Government Division. Inostroza was the first director of the Public Sector Modernization Program of the Ministry of Finance of Chile (2015-2018) and, until he was called to this position, he worked as a researcher and professor at the Center for Public Systems (CSP) of the University of Chile. . From Chile.
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The President-elect went to the Legislative headquarters to say goodbye and leaves with a mission: the search for agreements in a Parliament where he will not have a majority. An uphill mission for his Segpres minister.
The lawyer will be located in the first line of the Segpres Javiera Ascencio (RD) as the new head of the Studies Division. Ascencio was member of the study center Collective Courselinked to Democratic Revolution, where she was coordinator of issues of the Constitutional Convention.
That experience will be key in the second phase that Segpres will experience. When the Exit Plebiscite is voted, it will be precisely the Studies Division that is in charge of guiding and helping to resolve the legislative situation following July, if the proposal is approved. That is, it must accommodate the eventual new constitutional text with the laws in force.
Jackson also signed the lawyer Aisen Etcheverrywho will assume as the head of Interministerial Coordination Division. Since 2019 he was in charge of the transition process of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (Conicyt), which became the current National Research and Development Agency (ANID). Until now she was the national director of the organization. Etcheverry is a lawyer for the University of Chile and has a master of law by the University of San Francisco. She was an advisor to the Ministry of Economy and part of the digital transformation of Corfo.
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The seven thematic commissions changed their rhythm to deliver the reports before April 13. There are doubts.