Featuring a broad coalition of left and center-left parties, Chile’s President-elect Gabriel Boric unveiled his 24-member cabinet on Friday. In a gesture aiming to highlight his commitment to diversity and inclusion, Mr. Boric selected 14 women and ten men — with a combined average age of 49. Moreover, nine nominees are from outside of Santiago, a move indicative of the attempt to decentralize the administration.
Izkia Siches, who managed Mr. Boric’s runoff campaign, will be Chile’s first-ever female Interior Minister. An independent physician, she had originally been slated for the Health Ministry, but the bond of trust between her and the president-elect is such that Ms. Siches will now be first in the line of presidential succession.
Eight parties are represented in the cabinet, with four coming from the now-extinct centrist pact Concertación, which governed Chile over the past three decades. The Socialist Party, of former President Michelle Bachelet, won three prestigious portfolios – Defense, Housing, and Foreign Affairs – while the other three ex-Concertación...
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