Boric announces adjustments will be made after Rejection prevailed
Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Monday announced a few “adjustments” will be made to his administration after voters chose to reject the progressive Constitution penned to replace the one from the Agusto Pinochet era.
Boric said the new changes are to be designed “to address the challenges of the country” after Sunday's referendum.
“We know that our country's challenges are not limited to the constitutional issue. As a government we have the obligation to attend to the demands of our compatriots,” Boric said as he announced that “strong answers” were to be “expected in the face of precariousness, violence in the south, housing deficit, increase in the cost of living, lack of care support, reactivation of our economy, eternal waiting lists in health, quality in education” and “in low pensions.”
“Facing the great challenges will soon require adjustments in our government teams to face this new period with renewed vigor,” he added.
Boric said Chileans can “rest assured that the road to a new Constitution will never be an obstacle to respond to the urgencies” reported by the country. Read More...