(Reuters) – Chilean author Isabel Allende heralded the younger and female-dominated incoming authorities of President-elect Gabriel Boric on Monday and mentioned it marked a much-needed altering of the guard of the Andean nation’s political management.
“It’s a new generation rising to energy. It’s time for the outdated windbags to go dwelling and play bingo,” the 79-year-old author mentioned throughout a Zoom press convention to mark the launch of her newest novel “Violeta,” a story impressed by her mom.
The 35-year-old Boric revealed his Cabinet on Friday. It was majority feminine, with over half a dozen ministers underneath the age of 40 and together with different politicians who made their identify, like Boric, throughout student-led avenue protests a decade in the past.
“I’m delighted by the ministers Boric has appointed as a result of it is rather numerous, there are 14 ladies and 10 males. There actually is a stable intention there for gender parity and that’s simply extraordinary,” mentioned Allende.
Allende, a well known feminist, is said to Chile’s socialist former President Salvador Allende, who was overthrown in a bloody coup within the Seventies by General Augusto Pinochet. Fleeing into exile after the coup, she has spent most of her life outdoors Chile, first in Venezuela after which within the United States.
Salvador Allende’s granddaughter, socialist lawmaker Maya Fernandez, was named by leftist Boric as his incoming protection minister, in what some have seen as an ironic coincidence.
“Not solely will she be a Chilean minister, she can be minister of protection,” mentioned Allende. “She should cope with the Armed Forces and let’s not overlook in regards to the previous of the Armed Forces in Chile. I see it as a curious factor.”
(Reporting by Luclia Sigal in Buenos Aires; Editing by Adam Jourdan and Rosalba O’Brien)
