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Monday, President Sebastián Piñera He commented to some of the political committee ministers that times “had accelerated” and that the Minister of Defense, Mario Desbordes, and the President of BancoEstado, Sebastián Sichel, They could not continue to delay their departure from the government and that it should be settled during this month when they will leave their positions.
The President, as stated in the Palace, is annoyed by all the “noise” that has been generated with the departures because, at first, other dates were contemplated for the departures of both, However, due to the media coverage of the Head of State, he believes it is convenient to move the process forward.
Thus, the definitions were accelerated, especially for the Defense Minister who has already decided that he will leave his post as minister during these days. In fact, in the portfolio some of the officials, according to government sources, They have already been notified that their departure will take place in the next few days, no later than next Monday. And that, one of the clearest signs, was the cancellation of a trip to Israel that he had scheduled.
Are you two leaving the cabinet? Monckeberg evaluates going out together with Desbordes to “order” RN
This, above all, as a result of the increased pressure that began to emerge from the National Renovation militancy who have insisted on qEu Desbordes leaves the cabinet to be the presidential letter of the community in the presidential primaries next year and for it to be deployed supporting candidates in municipal, governor, and constituent elections.
In fact, a new letter is circulating in the party’s bench of deputies, in addition to the one from a few weeks ago, in which they insist that he leave the cabinet to assume the presidential challenge.
“The day that President Piñera appointed you Minister of Defense, you said that you were not going to disappear from RN. The time has come to take your word. Mario, today we are respectfully requesting you to come back to lead our sector ”, says one of the paragraphs of the letter.
For her part, Deputy Camila Flores, He indicated that “I think it is positive that the Minister of Defense, Mario Desbordes, is advancing his departure from the Ministry and can ultimately contribute to the campaign for constituent regional governor, for the municipalities. We need all of our leaderships, and by the way, Mario Desbordes is one of the important leaderships that RN has ”.
Anyway, yesterday afternoon Minister Desbordes was with President Piñera in a graduation ceremony from the Fach. In that instance, according to some sources, both would have agreed on the day of departure, however, others in the Palace affirm that this conversation has not yet materialized.
“There is pressure from his own supporters, but it is something that has not been resolved and it is up to the President himself,” Segegob minister Jaime Bellolio said today on Radio Universo.
Until now, the names that sound to replace Desbordes are the head of Mining, Baldo Prokurica, and the current undersecretary of the portfolio Alfonso Vargas.
In parallel to the last steps for the exit of Desbordes, as advanced The Third PM, the Minister of the Segpres, Cristián Monckeberg, could also leave his post to help organize the ranks of RN because several leaders have requested it. This, if it is possible to reach an agreement with the dissent of the community for a consensus table.
In fact, the talks between both sides have already started and Congressman Tomás Fuentes, who is part of the dissidence, spoke with Monckeberg this morning to discuss the possible agreement and today the deputies have continued the talks.
Thus, the formula being considered, in order to comply with the political parties law, is for Monckeberg to resign, ideally together with Desbordes, and assume as first vice president, a position that has been empty since Senator Rafael Prohens assumed the head of RN in place of Overflows.
So the bet is that once he takes office in that place, Prohens steps aside and Monckeberg automatically takes over as president and subsequently, be ratified at the general council on January 5.
“Given the willingness of Minister Monckeberg to stop being a minister and lead a consensus table in RN, many of us have taken this with joy and today we hope to reach a consensus so that all parties of the party feel represented in a consensus list led by Monckeberg, “Deputy Fuentes told this medium.
And he added: “I believe that the change must be done now (…). At least from my sector we will do everything possible so that all sensitivities feel represented and we can reach an agreement ”.
In RN they broadcast that they are trying to convince Senator Francisco Chahuan, who seeks to preside over RN and who rejected the idea of a consensus directive.
While the President defines his scheme for the exit of Desbordes, Sichel from the State Bank rushes to decide before the end of the month whether or not to join the presidential race. A fact that those close to him take for granted, but that the exDC lawyer avoids taking for granted.
In Sichel’s environment they point out that their stay at Banco Estado is not tied to the Desbordes itinerary. And that he has not yet had the final conversation with Piñera to define until when he stays. “His evaluation does not go hand in hand with what Mario does,” insist his close friends.
He has said that the best scenario is to compete as an independent in the Chile Vamos primary and that the conglomerate parties allow him to do so.
That is why he read with good eyes that Javier Macaya won the UDI internships over the weekend, given that he is also in favor of broad competition in the sector. After the results of the union election were known, the new UDI table contacted Sichel to reaffirm that the new UDI table will promote a primary that includes it.
Several weeks ago Desbordes also made Sichel explicit out of interest in competing, as he verbalized last Thursday during a meeting at Evelyn Matthei’s home.
The only party with which Sichel has not made contact to ensure that they will not hinder him from going to primary school is with Evópoli.
Sichel, in any case, keeps open the possibility of leaving the State Bank early, although he has transmitted internally that it is a mistake to advance the presidential race.
Anyway, in the Desbordes environment they say that they do not want the defense minister to leave on the same date as Sichel because they appeal that “they are positions of different importance” and because they want to mark a political milestone. In the Palace, in fact, they maintain that “a minister is different than the president of the State Bank” and that, for the same reason, it is most likely that they will leave their positions on different dates.
