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Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe does not know if the UDI was the main support of the Government during the social outbreak but she assures that within the unionism they understood, especially after October 18, “that the worst thing that could happen to Chile is that the democracy”. And, in that context, he said that the party he presided over until recently were “willing to pay the costs of what that meant.”
The former president of the UDI spoke with La Tercera and assured that she does not regret having been on the side of the Executive when in the streets they asked for the low position of Sebastián Piñera. In that sense, he stressed that “the government was very close to falling, probably closer than people think.”
“If the country continued in that escalation of violence that we were experiencing on November 15, the same right-wing people would have asked Piñera to leave,” the UDI senator said, explaining that if everything got out of hand they would have generated a very complex political situation that would have jeopardized the stability of the government.
According to JVR, if everyone had acted irresponsibly within the ruling party, “it is most likely that we would have ended up in a situation where it is untenable for the government to continue governing.”
“That, here and anywhere, is a white coup, but a coup in the end,” he commented.
Asked about the vision of President Piñera in the most critical moments, JVR assured that the President “was always with a cool head and ready to move forward.”
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