President Bachelet: “This transparency agenda will have a positive impact on relations between authorities, business owners, and the public”
“We want political leaders who are dedicated to defending the public interest and business owners who contribute to investment and development because when those roles change, the entire country loses,” she stated.
The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, attended the presentation of a public report and overview of the work of the Transparency Council at Morandé 360 in Santiago. The entity is led by Vivianne Blanlot.
“The Council is one of the agencies created to renew and strengthen democratic institutions. Since its inception, it has been fortified and has become an important agent in the bolstering of public trust,” President Bachelet noted in her opening remarks.
The President mentioned the progress that the country is making in the area of probity and assured her audience that, “today we are entering a new stage, one that is much more demanding than those that we have seen in the past.”
“Our fellow Chileans are calling on us to significantly raise standards of integrity and transparency in public work as a condition for renewing their trust in Chile’s officials and institutions. This administration has an historic responsibility, and we have to rise to the challenge.”
Along those same lines, the President reviewed the projects that the government is promoting in the area of transparency, which are structured around three major themes: strengthening of democracy, probity in business, and probity in the public sector. “The agenda that we are promoting as a government covers a wide variety of issues in the public and private spheres. The most important of thing is that it is moving forward and the measures are taking shape,” she said.
She added, “This is undoubtedly something that our people want and that our institutions, both public and private, need. We want political leaders who are dedicated to defending the public interest and business owners who contribute to investment and development because when those roles change, the entire country loses.”
Finally, the President underscored the importance of working together to bring about these changes. “This transparency agenda will have a positive impact on relations between authorities, business owners, and the public. Given this, I also want to state that this is not the work of just a few- it is a job that belongs to all of us.”