Cristián Larroulet
Since assuming as Head of Advisors to the Presidency of the Republic during the second administration of Sebastián Piñera, Cristián Larroulet's performance received public criticism. Most critics described him as exerting an excessive and uncontested influence in key government decisions, pointed to his alleged efforts in defending the neoliberal paradigm within the Piñera government after the Chilean Protests from October 2019, and to his refusal to make "ideological concessions" to provide state aid in the frame of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Chile. While commenting the performance of Piñera's administration during the Chilean Protests, the education expert Mario Waissbluth described both Piñera's and Larroulet's management of the crisis as "ideological and suicidal governmental stinginess". Criticism of Larroulet has also come from Piñera's own government coalition. Referring to him, Mayor Germán Codina from the political party Renovación Nacional, pointed in December 2019 that "some people advise the president badly" and that "politics is not just numbers."
In April 2020, after President Sebastián Piñera questioned the realization of Chile's 2020 National Plebiscite during a television interview, the deputy of his coalition, Ximena Ossandón, accused that in Chile "there is an extreme right-wing sector that never wanted the plebiscite", and added "I believe there are traces of the Head of Advisors Cristián Larroulet again (...) I have seen how the government made a U-turn, it was very pro-plebiscite and now doesn't want the plebiscite. I think of La Moneda, and I think of Cristián Larroulet."
Following a televised debate of the Chile Vamos 2021 presidential primaries it was noted by "El Mostrador" that association to Larroulet had effectively become a smear among right-wing candidates.
Criticism
Cristián Patricio Larroulet Vignau (born 1953 in Temuco) was the Minister General Secretariat of the Presidency of Chile under President Sebastián Piñera. He currently serves as the Head of Advisors to the Presidency of the Republic in the second administration of Sebastián Piñera.