Gender Equality Will Only Be Reached If

By Including Women In Decision-making, City Governments Will Be In A Better Position To Fulfill Their Responsibility To Ensure The Safety Of Their Residents, Especially Women And Girls.

Having More Women In Company Boards, In Senior Management, Supervisory Positions And Workers In The Formal Sector Is Not Only The Right Thing To Do, But The Smart Thing To Do. It's Good For The Bottom Line.

I Made An Effort To Ensure Social Safeguards. But Our Economy Has To Grow - And Chile, With A Population Of 17 Million, Cannot Depend Entirely On Its Domestic Market. Which Is Why The Decision To Focus On Exports, Made At The Beginning Of The Democratic Era, Was The Correct One. We Are Continuing To Do So. For A Long Time, Chile Has Been Successful In Combating Poverty. But Now We Must Focus More On Fighting Inequality.

The Challenge Is For Us To Reinvigorate The Relationship With The Chilean People And To Give State Institutions New Legitimacy. But This Is Also A Universal Phenomenon. There's Also Disenchantment With Politics In Europe.

We Need To Have A Broad Debate So That The New Chilean Constitution Is Representative Of Everyone. I Am Convinced That It Cannot Just Be Developed By An Expert Group. First, People At All Levels Will Be Given An Opportunity To Provide Input. They Should Be Allowed To Express Their Opinions About The Kind Of Society They Would Like To Live In. That's The Kind Of Open Process I Would Like To See. The Issue At Hand Here Is Finding Unity On The Greater Rules. Afterwards, A Text Will Be Developed And Presented To Parliament.