Joignant has praised the "programatic intuition" of the second government of Michelle Bachelet (2014–2018). He has on the other side being deeply critical of Axel Kaiser's and Gloria Álvarez's book "El engaño del populismo" which he called "confuse", "harmful" and "very bad". In 2018 Joignant sparred with Daniel Jadue, a defender of the Maduro government, in televised debate over the situation in Venezuela.