The Minister of Finance of Chile, Mario Marcel, He presented his resignation for personal reasons, which represents a new decline in the president’s administration Gabriel Boric A few months after the end of his mandate.
Marcel, 65, Considered one of the strong men of the Government, who served as president of the Central Bank of Chile between 2016 and 2022, He held his position since the beginning of the Boric government, in March 2022.
The departure of the renowned economist occurs only one day after Boric announced the removal of the Minister of Agriculture, Esteban Valenzuela.
In the Palacio de la Moneda de Santiago, Boric formalized the changes. Marcel’s replacement, the new head of the Treasury will be the until then Minister of Economy, Nicolás Grau.
Álvaro García Hurtado and María Ignacia Fernández Gatica will be at the forefront of the portfolios of Economics and Agriculture, respectively.
Jeannette Jara will be the official candidate for the November elections
The political tensions between parties allied to the government broke the unique list of the ruling for the general elections of November.
“The economic team has important changes,” but “our government will continue to advance in the direction of fiscal responsibility,” said Boric in his speech, highlighting “rigor, tenacity, seriousness and generosity” of the now former Minister Marcel. “His contribution is not limited to the economic.”
The reconfiguration of the cabinet is a new readjustment within the multiple casualties suffered by the administration this year, who has just over six months in power, but less than four to meet his successor.
In July, the then Minister of Science, Aisén Etcheverry, resigned from position to devote himself to a position in the presidential cabinet as head of strategic planning.
In recent months, they have also resigned from their positions, for different reasons, the holders of the Ministries of Defense, National Assets, Interior and Labor, the latter occupied until last April by Jeannette Jara, who will play the November presidential elections as the official of the ruling party after imposing himself in the June primaries.
Source: Ambito
