“I’m worried about signs that you see … Did you see the video of two drivers fighting that it appeared on social networks?” He asked Michelle Bachelet To the present public, on April 29, in a conversation at the University of the Americas (UDLA).
“It’s unusual.” It is a lot of anger, “said one of them,” the ex -president continued, referring to a brutal road fight that occurred in Providencia, when a man got off his truck and began to break the glass of another car with a baseball bat and then began to collide it.
Bachelet, who despite his retirement from the presidential race is still present in the surveys, used the viralized episode a few weeks ago on the web to make a crude diagnosis of the current mood state of our country, predominated, in his opinion, for a feeling of discomfort and anger.
“Our population is very fragmented and politically polarized (…). Chilean society has a lot of anger with the world of politics, with insecurity and with the issues they have to live daily,” he said.
And he added that, beyond programmatic issues and economic proposals, the main challenge of the current presidential candidates and candidates, in his opinion, is “to instill hope, but that is credible, not a faramalla, With super -conscretas, which may have concrete results. ”
“The main challenge of the future president of Chile is that people feel that what they have achieved with so much effort will not lose it and that life can be better for them, for their children and for their grandchildren,” he added.
Dialogue and agreements
Although he said that both times are very different, the former UN director of Women made an analogy between what happened in Chile in the early 90s and the current political moment, claiming the policy of the agreements, hard criticized by the Broad Front, especially during the social outbreak.
“After the recovery of democracy, a lot of dialogue was necessary between sectors that had been very divided, with two different truths, looking for spaces to agree on certain central things to advance. Today we lack much more dialogue and respect between us, because a country that is not able to meet again, will probably not be able Mauro Lombardi.
To argue her position, the ex -president cited the report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), where the “obstructionist spirit” of the current Chilean political class is reproached.
He also referred to the report “Citizen Subjectivities in the current Chile”, prepared by its Citizen Horizon Foundation, where data from different public opinion studies carried out by Chilean universities were crossed.
“The results are very dark,” he said. “The predominant feeling is that we are Chileans only when they were the Pan -Americans, when they play the selection (of football) and for September 18. But in the rest, everyone has the feeling that each one has to scratch with their own peaks,” he added.
Finally, Bachelet recalled that one of her great learning as Minister, President and International official is the true loyalty, that is, and they tell her- “this is not working.”
“Nobody wants a yes man or one yes woman, Because he wants things to be done well, And those people who hope they ‘brown the pill’ are so wrong … “.
