Former Minister Claudio Alvarado referred to the internal storm that Chile Vamos experienced after the defeat suffered in Congress on the subject of 10%. The UDI militant who passed the Segpres to the Senate in just over a month advised officialism and assured that coalition unity is “fundamental” to achieving the continuity of the right in government.
In an interview with La Tercera, Alvarado, who claims that his time in the upper house will be brief, realizes that the problems are not entirely solved in the official coalition and acknowledges that he is “regrettable” but wants to be optimistic.
“We are in the transition phase in the party relationship with the government, which I hope in the short term will allow parties to be ordered in such a way that such situations are not repeated,” said former Minister Alvarado who left the cabinet, in part, he explained, “because the UDI was never content to lose the Ministry of the Interior.”
“We have to be clear about the following,” alvarado says, emphasizing that, unlike 2014, where he said the presidential election was pre-defined with the return of Michelle Bachelet, “today we are in a political scenario where Chile’s unity is key, because the best presidential choices to the public are in our sector.”
According to Alvarado the best cards for the election are from Chile Vamos and, therefore, he assured “the unity of the coalition is fundamental to achieve a goal of continuity in government”.
The former minister has faith in Chile Vamos who faced, in his words, “a political crisis of proportions”, originated, as he told the morning,” mainly by a position of Chilean parliamentarians Vamos in a project different from the position of the government”.
“I have always maintained that what cannot happen to a government, or should be prevented from happening, is to have defeats in Parliament with its own supporters,” he said.
And, in that sense, consulted by his departure as the President asked him to stay, Alvarado stated that he considered it “necessary” to generate change to try to order the parties internally. “I have always been of the idea that the responsibility for this is not only with one person, but lies with a team. And as part of that team I felt it necessary to accompany Blumel on the way out,” he concluded.
