[Politics] "Sign a new Constitution in democracy": Jackson takes stock of the year and talks about the possible legacy of this Government

[FNX Magokiler]

"It has been super challenging (...) it has had frustrations, but it has also reaffirmed several convictions." With these words, the Minister of Social Development, Giorgio Jackson, referred to what has been this first year of the Government of President Gabriel Boric. The Secretary of State first stated that "I think this year has been very intense, a year of learning" and added in a conversation with Meganoticias that "in general the installation of a new Government with very clear, very clear ambitions and that somehow due to economic conditions on the one hand, inflation, the global context, political conditions, with everything that it meant in between to have a constitutional process with a Plebiscite, and then a reform process that has found some support , but also some obstacles in the legislative process in a Congress where we have minorities in both chambers".

In this sense, he specified: "It has been super challenging, I am not lying to you that it has had frustrations, but it has also reaffirmed several convictions, and at least personally I am very proud to be able to be part of a work team that wants to leave a legacy and that legacy has a holder for me, which is a government that, in addition to taking care of emergencies.

 

 

Wants to be able to leave it installed so that future governments can continue building a welfare state for our country, where people can have security both both economically and socially". Jackson assured that "each government is leaving its legacy" and in his opinion, "if we continue to work consistently, I think it will be a government that will be able to sign a new Constitution born in democracy." However, he pointed out that "beyond that, being able to lay the foundations of a welfare state that allows people, just as European societies did in the postwar period, to have a social, transversal consensus, that for example in in matters of health, education and pensions, is guaranteed with levels of solidarity that, at least in Chile, we have not yet managed to fully establish". Asked about what he considers the most complex, the minister maintained that "the hardest thing has been a scenario of polarization that is amplified at the media level and that, sometimes, puts up obstacles at superficial levels."

 

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