The flag bearer of the New Social Pact, Yasna Provoste (DC), thanked 58 political personalities from the center-left who signed a declaration of support for her presidential candidacy.
“I appreciate the support of the signatories of the Democratic Change Project declaration. We share what is indicated in it and we have said it from the beginning: our candidacy will promote the necessary changes hand in hand with good governance and social peace,” Provoste said on Twitter.
The letter entitled “Democratic Change Project” was signed by “socialists and exponents of the democratic center-left,” including José Antonio Viera Gallo, Sergio Bitar, José Joaquín Brunner, Ernesto Ottone and Fulvio Rossi.
The signatories expressed their support for the candidacy of the former president of the Senate, “consistent with the result of the consultation that elected her as the standard-bearer of our sector, valuing her progressive principles, responsibility and political solvency that augurs a government at the height of the great challenges.”
The political personalities of the center-left extended their “convictions and ideas” to be included in Provoste’s program, such as “the obligation to build a great national agreement with a vision of the country through dialogue and alliances that only needs political will and decision to isolate those who advocate sterile confrontations, polarizations and create enemies.”
“We trust in his leadership skills, in his democratic convictions and in his vision of a country so that from the Presidency he can lead Chile along that path,” they stressed, adding that “his candidacy is located at a moment that will transcend his own government, which will have the exceptional opportunity to inaugurate a new period of Chile’s history, collecting the best works and legacies of the past”.
The document exposes the idea of installing a participatory, direct and deliberative democracy, as well as talking about the “path of reformism” that, in the opinion of the signatories, “must have a main role in the immediate future of Chile, to advance gradually and responsibly, without useless demagogueries and populisms, in a country in permanent evolution towards new and better ways of life.”
Finally, the signatories argue that economic growth “must occupy a main place among the priorities of the government”, since “it is the material basis of our social aspirations”, as well as pensions, to which they point to a need for an “urgent reform”.
“It is an unfulfilled reform that cannot wait any longer,” they said, pointing to a mixed pension system “that mixes individual capitalization and the creation of an intergenerational and intragenerational redistributive entity, would collect the positives of the growth of pension savings and social and state solidarity.”
Later, in the framework of the religious ceremony of Thanksgiving for National Holidays in the Atacama Region, Yasna Provoste affirmed that the country has the need to rebuild itself and overcome the cracks of inequality.
“Like these deep cracks in our society that have generated distrust and inequality, we can make a very important effort from the construction of a new government that puts the reconstruction of the country at the center of our task,” said the former president of the Senate.
