The ex-president Ricardo Lagos Escobar entered the debate for the constitutionality of the projects presented in Congress, ensuring that you must “follow the rules” in the policy.
In an extensive interview in Icare, the former President stated that currently “politics is very bad, we need to find the soul of Chile and express that soul in a way that no one is going to be 100 percent satisfied (…) but we have to find it among all “.
“Without following the rules of the game, how do we understand each other? The one who screams louder, the one who makes louder tweets? It takes a leader to guide”he stressed.
In relation to the pandemic caused by the coronavirus, Lagos said that “what we lack is to have a broader view of how the world has changed and how this crisis is going to be more difficult for us.”
“This crisis has a characteristic that none of the other crises has had, which is the loss of the country’s productive capacity,” he added, indicating that the recovery “will take us three or four years.”
Role of the Executive in the pandemic
Lagos assured that President Piñera “I think he made the whole hospital part splendid (…) the only bad thing was that in January he did not call the public health centers to prepare the population. She forgot about prevention. “
“I think Minister Briones has a very important quality, which is empathy. More than that, he is clearly aware that this is for 20 or 24 months and that he must make new efforts afterwards, “he stressed.
“It is going to have to spend much more for the true activation. He has the capacity to do it, I have no doubt,” he said.
The former President maintained that “At times I have the impression that what the opposition says is not heard (…) I would like it to be an opposition willing to collaborate and I would like the government to be willing to listen and I think Minister Briones is listening seriously “he insisted.
???? “The minister @ignaciobriones_ it has an important quality: empathy […] I would like the opposition to be willing to collaborate and the government to listen, the minister is willing to listen, “says the former president. @RicardoLagos ➡️ https://t.co/rHtUxSOYXK pic.twitter.com/gZ8fgELeOT
— ICARE (@icare_chile) June 28, 2020
Social outbreak and coronavirus
Along with this, Lagos said that “there are many reasons to go out to protest (…) we have a double challenge in Chile, the pandemic that comes from the world and the ones we had before. “
On the origin of social discontent, the former President stated that “a set of elements were accumulating that now began to emerge. There was economic growth, improvement in the income per inhabitants (…) the one that has stopped fighting for poverty has other demands and these are for the State, for Chilean society. “
???? @RicardoLagos in the “In Person” Cycle of @icare_chile: “There are many reasons to go out to protest. We have to deal with the demands of 18-O and the pandemic,” says the former president. Watch the interview here: https://t.co/rHtUxSOYXK #ICARE pic.twitter.com/lI0ynFTGhw
— ICARE (@icare_chile) June 29, 2020
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