Steinert and Sedini Out: Kast Realizes the Fastest Cabinet Change Since the Return to Democracy
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With the departure of Steinert and Sedini, in charge of decisive portfolios for the government, the proportion in favor of men grew: 13 versus 9. Ministers now only head sectoral divisions.
Santiago, Chile. The President of Chile, José Antonio Kast, removed the Minister of Security on Tuesday, in the face of the fall of her popularity due to the lack of rapid results in her promise of “hard hand” in the face of criminality. The ultra-rightist also dismissed the Minister General of Government, in the most rapid ministerial change since the return to democracy after the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, in 1990. “I did not expe…
A little more than two months in power, President José Antonio Kast has been forced to introduce changes in his ministerial team to curb criticism of the government for its shortcomings in security and advocacy matters. The change of cabinet made this evening was demanded by both the opposition and the official as it became clear that the Minister of Security, Trinidad Steiner, showed weakness at the head of the priority portfolio of an "emergen…
The ceremony in La Moneda was marked by the thanks given by the president to the outgoing ministers: Trinidad Steinert, in Public Security, and Mara Sedini, in the General Secretariat of Government (Segegob).
The departure follows a series of polemics that precipitated the Executive's determination on Tuesday night.
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