translated from Spanish: Bellolio spokesman: “We have to humbly acknowledge that we could have done better many of the things that criticize us today”

This day the government spokesman, Jaime Bellolio, spoke with Radio ADN where he referred to the visions of the newly appointed ministers of Estado.Al be consulted for the incorporation of two new UDI militants to the political committee, he stated that “I believe that the recomposition has already departed, anyway. The fact that two people from an important career in The National Renewal, Senator Victor Perez, have entered the cabinet, I am not going to say that I have an important trajectory but I am younger and I also represent a line within the UDI, of course it is a way of trying to rebuild our coalition.” Bellolio recounted the moment when he received the call from Sebastián Piñera and recounted that “I didn’t expect it. I was called the same day we took over at 9.30am, the President called me and the first thing I asked him was ‘President, are you sure?’ Because I have had opinions that have sometimes been critical about the government’s past work, and I have done politics about those convictions, with regard to those ideas. And I see that there is a space here to work as a gigantic team, the Executive has an immense job.” The secretary of state also commented on the role of the new Manager of the Defense Portfolio, Mario Desbordes, where he stated that “the Minister of Defense was not at all deactivated. On the contrary, it is now at the heart of the government. And his vision, his help, his messages, his tuning, are key. I always maintained a good relationship with Mario, we had common visions in many subjects and in some we had some differences, which will continue to happen inside the cabinet. The key is that these visions have to be present.” We have to humbly recognize that we could have done much better many of the things that some people criticize us today,” he said. Referring to the constitutional plebiscite of October, Bellolio stated that “there are two alternatives, valid exactly the same. And the words that one says before, has to take care of them, and while I was for the ‘Apruebo’ and he manifested what the causes and reasons for it were and they asked me for the ‘Rejection’, I said that there were good reasons to be for the “Rejection”; and after I took the other position, I insist, there are good reasons to be for the “I approve.”

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