SANTIAGO, Oct 27 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Chilean President, Sebastian Pinera, asked all of his ministers to resign, as a measure to respond to social demands, after a week of street protests.
“I asked all ministers to resign, in order to structure a new cabinet, to be able to respond to these new demands and to the future,” Pinera told reporters, at the presidential palace.
He said, his government “has heard the people’s message. We all have changed. Now we have to combine forces to give real, urgent and responsible solutions to those social demands.”
More than one million people took to the streets of Santiago on Friday, after a week of demonstrations against small pensions, low quality of the educational and health systems, and the high cost of basic services, among other things.
Pinera regretted that “Chilean people witnessed violent and brutal times,” as violent acts and looting left 19 dead and hundreds others injured.
The Chilean military said, the nighttime curfew would be lifted in the Santiago Metropolitan Region and Los Rios Region as normality has been restored in the regions.
