The former presidential candidate of Chile Vamos, Sebastián Sichel, made a diagnosis of the political landscape in Chile, including the right, and indicated that former La Moneda candidate José Antonio Kast, “will never be able to win a presidential election.”
“José Antonio Kast beat me in the elections, I have no complex in admitting it, but he will never be able to win a presidential election, because what that type of right is looking for in the world is to bring together interest groups that are against changes and modernity. That doesn’t build a majority,” Sichel told Radio ADN.
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On the situation of the right, she said that “she is looking to the future with the rearview mirror and seems more enthusiastic about returning to the 80s, which was rather authoritarian and with glimpses of populism to which I do not belong today, neither before nor tomorrow.”
Recall that after the first presidential round, Sichel, who was behind Kast and current President Gabriel Boric, announced his retirement from politics. He is currently doing a diploma in Europe, according to the aforementioned media.
Criticism of Boric’s management
The former president of BancoEstado also had words for Boric’s administration. In this regard, he said that the President “has exacerbated his failures in these months in what seemed to be his main weakness: a kind of the exercise of the half naïve and good power, manifested in the statements of the Minister of the Interior, with her statements regarding political prisoners, on the Wallmapu, on security.”
“Another of Boric’s mistakes is the ‘like freckles, you pay’. I confronted him about the fourth retreat, I was an opponent understanding that it was bad public policy, and now as President, Gabriel Boric says he is against it. Many voted for him because he was in favor of withdrawals,” Sichel continued.
However, he acknowledged “symbolic” gestures of the administration, such as the “diverse cabinet,” he said. “It urged a country that had become accustomed to cabinets that looked like school courses,” Sichel said.
