irina karamanoscouple of Chilean President Gabriel Boricannounced Thursday that abandons the sociocultural functions that corresponded to her as first lady and assured that the institutions “have to be reviewed and updated over time.”
Karamanos, 33, will complete until December 31 the definitive transfer to different ministries of the six state foundations that he presided over this yearsuch as Integra, Prodemu and Artesanías de Chile.
She will also stop using the space allocated for her and her team in the presidential palace of La Moneda, in downtown Santiago. ”It is part of a republican conviction that the institutions, so that be a better instrument for the people, they have to be reviewed and updated over time”, Karamanos said at a press conference.
Graduated in Anthropology and Educational Sciences from the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and Leader of the Feminist Front of the ruling party Social Convergence (CS), Karamanos is the first feminist to take office.
During the electoral campaign that led him to win the elections a year ago, Boric said that his intention was to “abolish” the institution of the First Lady and “generate a body that is transparent, based on merits and civil service careers, and not on blood ties or affinity with the President.”
After much hesitation, Karamanos finally agreed to take over but with the condition of “reformulating” it and “adapting it to the times”.
Karamanos, who will continue to accompany Boric to institutional events, said on Thursday that abandoning the management of the Chilean Presidency’s sociocultural network will make it possible to build “a lighter and more functional State for contemporary needs” and “innovate the view that one can have of a presidential couple.
Boric, who participated in the same press conference, indicated for his part that the transfer of the foundations is an “important advance” and “complies with a commitment to institutional modernization.”
“The best way to take care of our institutions is precisely by questioning, improving and updating them,” added the president. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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