Bachelet upholds right to tap a Communist as minister
Bachelet upholds right to tap a Communist as minister
Progreso Weekly • 19 December, 2013
Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s President-elect, this week rebuffed center-right politicians who cautioned her against appointing a Communist to her cabinet and spoke disparagingly about the Cuban Communist Party.
Gutenberg Martínez, former chairman of the Christian Democratic Party, said Monday (16) that if the Chilean Communist Party doesn’t make clear its position about “human rights, democracy and international politics, I believe that it would be a mistake” to have a Communist minister.
“Cuba is a permanent thorn on that issue and I think those would be very relevant details,” he said.
comparty chile-logo3Senator Ignacio Walker, the current CDP chairman, also objected to a Communist Party presence in the cabinet, saying that his party does not want to “be in a joint government whose reference is the regime of the Castro brothers in Cuba or Chavism in Venezuela.”
Bachelet, 62, won the presidency on Sunday (15), on the ticket of the New Majority, a center-left coalition that includes the Communist and Socialist parties. It will be her second stay at La Moneda palace; she was Chile’s president from March 2006 to March 2010.
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