He is not someone alien to local politics, nor to national politics. As a deputy, as undersecretary and as national president of the party, he was on the front line of national politics. He wanted to be the first regional governor of O’Higgins, but Covid forced him to withdraw his candidacy, not to campaign, in the official primary where Pablo Silva and Fernando Verdugo also competed.
Away from the spotlight, today he returns to the fray, and launches his candidacy, rather pre-candidacy – he corrects – seeking to be an option in a primary that until his arrival did not seem to be in the plans of the current governor who took his candidacy for granted. re-election.
Thus the emergence of the former deputy for two terms in our region and former president of the Christian Democracy comes to move the local political map.
In this context we spoke with Juan Carlos Latorre, who, although he did not want to make “personal criticisms,” did point out several points to improve in the Regional Government.
¿Es el candidato a gobernador regional por la Democracia Cristiana?
Well, what I have done is simply accept an invitation to register as a pre-candidate within the process carried out by Christian Democracy throughout the country in order to project the candidacies that could be presented both in the gubernatorial candidacies and as mayors and councilors and regional councilors. .
Indeed, I have expressed not only my decision to register as a pre-candidate, but also that I have raised the convenience of the definitions that are adopted, particularly in the region – whatever the pacts that are signed – with a prior primary. It seems to me that it is the right thing to do, so that the leadership that each coalition could have in this election is effectively projected.
Bueno un poco me respondió la siguiente pregunta era si cómo se viene el tema de pactos electorales. Si la DC irá junto con el oficialismo, o con cierta parte de del actual conglomerado de gobierno, si lo que se pretende es hacer una sola lista más bien de centro izquierda.
That will have to be defined in the short term between the parties that are discussing coalition possibilities. The profile that I represent is very well known, I have been a person who has been active in Christian Democracy all my life, who has collaborated in Center Left coalitions and particularly in the Concertación periods with a coalition that in my opinion was extraordinarily successful in giving government to Chile. That had important support and not only in parliament, but in many municipalities in the country.
That is what it seems to me that I clearly represent and that is the line that I am interested in strengthening, I am interested in collaborating so that this option can not only be projected -hopefully through primaries in the region- but additionally, it can also be projected in each of the communes, whether in the election of mayors or councilors.
Y cuál serían sus principales propuestas o más bien por qué que le gustaría poder ser gobernador regional, una figura que está recién tomando forma después de un periodo de existencia.
In reality, I believe that the formation of regional governments, although they are something that has been new in recent years, in each region they constitute not only part of a new institutional framework of the country, but also correspond to an opportunity that the regions must project and strengthen. I was already a pre-candidate and as a result of the covid my candidacy had to be put aside, despite that I managed to appear in the primary vote and obtained no less a vote, very important like this for me, I think it continues There is a need to strengthen not only a regional development proposal that incorporates all those advantages that our region has in its development, both the point of view of what the presence of one of the main mining companies in the country like El Teniente means, the projection that this sector has not only in the region but towards the rest of the country. The presence of the agricultural and industrial agricultural sector with an extraordinarily relevant role and of course the development that should be very strong from the regional government with projects of different nature for aspects such as the tourism sector and of course those initiatives that can strengthen the sector industrial of our of our country and our region. In other words, I still think that there are pending challenges, this does not have to appear as a criticism of what the experience of this first regional government has been, but rather as an objective fact that can have different perspectives in its analysis, but that From my point of view it still shows pending potential in its future development.
Una de las críticas que se puede hacer a lo mejor es una proyección de largo plazo de la región. Porque si bien eh la actual figura del gobernador ha sido importante y ha marcado. Se ve más bien que va se ve proyecto a proyecto, que se van viendo las necesidades, Pero no se ve un objetivo que uno pueda decir la región transite hacia x camino proyectando 10, 15 o 20 años más
Yes, I think that is indeed the point. I believe that – and this does not have to be interpreted as a personal criticism of the current governor, far from it – I believe that it is a pending challenge as is resuming a regional development strategy. A development strategy that incorporates as part of it different initiatives that give it meaning. Not only to the specific initiatives that can be presented by themselves, but that can be integrated into a great plan that strengthens the future of our region.
In that sense, it seems to me that the regional government still has greater capacity than it has shown to carry out different projects. When I see, for example, the figures that the different regions show us regarding what is – for example – development in terms of infrastructure, I am concerned that our region appears with figures that are far below the average of the rest of the region. regions of the country. In fact, I was at a meeting at the Ministry of Public Works in which the projects that are going to be carried out in the coming years in the region are shown and I am concerned that the amounts are far below what I believe they should be. If one compares it with the development capacity that other regions have achieved, and places it only as an example, I do not want to focus on a point that may seem critical, but simply reiterate the idea that the potential of our region is much superior to what we are actually projecting today. hThere are areas where the work being done continues to be important and necessary around measures that strengthen social sectors that are traditionally in need or neglected; That must be maintained but obviously there is a capacity in which the public-private association plays a fundamental role to strengthen it and that I miss as one of the aspects that our region should project more strongly in the future.
Obviously I do not associate this only with regional leadership but with the ability to integrate and form top-level teams with the best professionals in our region, often regardless of their way of thinking, who can positively associate in an effort that It is necessary and satisfactory for all people without exception. I believe that the maturity that we have achieved in many areas should also be present in this sense in the enhancement of the capacity that the region has.
Y ya teniendo un periodo en con los gobernadores regionales funcionando ¿Usted cree que las atribuciones que tiene el jefe regional son suficientes, faltan o incluso son a lo mejor demasiadas?
Look, I believe that the worst thing that can happen for an authority is not to fully exercise the powers it has and that goes not only at the regional level but also for those people who assume roles at the national level. I am concerned that during the development of the current government it is permanently evident in many sectors that, while there are people who are occupying roles that are very relevant, when one approaches them one realizes that they are not even aware of which ones. It is the function for which they have been invited to collaborate. This is true at the national level, and obviously also true at the regional level.
I want to be careful because in this sometimes one by saying an idea can affect people unfairly, but I have the impression that the powers that the regional government has today are sufficient to have shown or show satisfactory results in several areas., regardless of the fact that the regions are often still linked to the national government today. I am referring to the negotiation capacity that a good professional team has to not only manage projects, develop projects, but also to negotiate appropriately with the national government.
When one analyzes the experience of regional governors in the country, one can clearly see that there are some who have squandered their capacity. Sorry, not wasted, they have shown enormous negotiating capacity with the national government and others who have been practically absent from it.
Por último si bien afortunadamente en la región no hemos tenido grandes casos, los gobiernos regionales en general en el país se han visto afectados por el por casos como fundaciones u otros por la mucha discrecionalidad en la entrega de algunos fondos ¿Cómo ve esa situación?
I see it as something very painful, unacceptable. I believe that the cases that we have and that arose from the complaints that were seen in projects that were associated with the Ministry of Housing later showed us that there were also many cases that were said in relation to an inadequate allocation of regional funds, which Whether our reality in the O’Higgins region is not my topic today and I hope that the investigations currently being carried out by the prosecutor’s office at the regional and national level will hopefully absolutely free our Regional government from any responsibility in that regard.
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