Chile's president-elect names progressive, majority-women cabinet
Source: The Guardian
Chile’s president-elect names progressive, majority-women cabinet
Gabriel Boric, 35, picks youthful team including at defence the granddaughter of Salvador Allende, who was deposed in a coup
John Bartlett in Santiago
Fri 21 Jan 2022 18.00 GMT
Chile’s millennial president-elect, Gabriel Boric, has named a progressive cabinet, with a ministerial team which for the first time anywhere in the Americas is dominated by women.
Boric, a 35-year-old former student leader, will replace the billionaire rightwing president Sebastián Piñera on 11 March as he becomes the youngest president in Chile’s history.
Fourteen women and 10 men – with an average age of 49 – were named as ministers on Friday, in a cabinet which combines experienced moderates with former leaders from the 2011 education protest movement where Boric forged his political ideals.
“We have put together this group of people who are well-prepared, who have knowledge and experience, who are committed to the programme of changes that the country needs, and have the capacity to combine viewpoints, different perspectives and new visions,” said Boric at a ceremony outside Santiago’s natural history museum.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/chile-gabriel-boric-cabinet-majority-women
