The opposition party escalates tensions in its dispute with the government: Figueroa accuses the government of "ignorance" and "mediocrity" in the debate surrounding planned protests.

The General Secretary of the Communist Party, Bárbara Figueroa, heightened tensions amid a dispute with the government over conflicting statements following calls for mobilization from the party. This occurred after President José Antonio Kast harshly criticized the statements of Communist Party Deputy Lorena Pizarro, who argued that not everything can be resolved by Congress and that social movements in the streets are needed to create change. "For four years, the Communist Party was part of the government and comfortably occupied La Moneda. Today, after being defeated at the polls, it seeks to stir up the streets and hinder the progress that the government and Congress are democratically promoting. Chileans want solutions, not more violence," the President criticized on his X account. Government Secretary General Mara Sedini subsequently joined Kast's statements, supporting the President and stating: "I believe that the Communist Party cannot lecture anyone on democracy." In a conversation with Radio Universidad de Chile, Figueroa criticized Kast's words and also addressed Sedini. "Social movements, and the labor movement in particular, have their spokespersons, they have elected their leaders, and therefore, organizations and democratic debate within the institution should first respond to them. We are not the ones who should set those timelines, let alone that the ignorance of some regarding the autonomy of social movements leads them to the basic and rather mediocre conclusion that the debate is about the imposition of a party," she said. In that regard, she pointed out that "the fact that political actors, political parties, make a bet on social movements does not mean that we intend to lead them under the line of the Communist Party. We want to have a voice with our positions, but in relation to an articulation that is much more diverse, and even includes a great deal of independent leadership." Later in the radio conversation, the General Secretary of the PC stated that those statements reflect "an absolute disregard by the government, ignorance, and negligence towards the role of social and labor actors." The Communist Party leader then criticized Sedini, accusing her of being against "all the distractions that the government intends to install and all the moral quality with which they come to give us lessons... who, during the campaign, had a jingle that they used throughout Chile, where the person who is now a government spokesperson, in the campaign of the current President, cheerfully sang in chorus with the Republican Party, without communism." "So, when someone invites me to debate or comes to give me lessons, or comes to tell me that we don't have moral quality, I say with great respect: first, take care to be consistent before trying to give lessons to a party that, in its 114 years of history, has often experienced policies of repression and exclusion. A little more memory, especially about one's own history, before trying to come and give lessons to others and act as a spokesperson without remembering that just a few months ago, they were holding a microphone and singing enthusiastically at the Caupolicán, demanding the end of communism," she accused.