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Left or not? Defining Chile’s new government
As representatives of the administration toy with terminology from social democracy to feminism, HUGO GUZMAN shares a few thoughts in the aftermath of the inauguration of Gabriel Boric as the president of Chile
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“I BELIEVE that this is a government mainly of the centre-left,” said Camila Vallejo, a member of the Communist Party of Chile (CPC) and spokesperson for Gabriel Boric’s office.
Speaking to El Mercurio newspaper, which was subsidised by the CIA in the 1970 and it had its building in Valparaiso set on fire by protesters in October 2019, Vallejo emphasised that the government “has a programme that includes aspects of European social democracy.”
The new minister for the economy, Nicolas Grau, said in an interview with the newspaper Pulso that “our programme could be described mainly as social democratic.”
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