Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

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.

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

The change of the binominal system is without a doubt, a great advancement, it will allow us to be better represented and have better ideas.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.