JA Kast in a tailspin against the UDI mayor: “If we have seen someone who has made populism from the right, it is Joaquín Lavín”



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“If we have seen someone who has made populism from the right, it is Joaquín Lavín.” In these terms, the leader of the Republican Party and former presidential candidate, José Antonio Kast, referred to the mayor of Las Condes and a potential letter from Chile Vamos a La Moneda, regarding the visibility that the UDI mayor has had not only in the morning but also in the polls.

According to the representative of the extreme right in Chile, Lavín has the advantage that in his commune (Las Condes) many taxes are paid from many companies that are not paid in the peripheral communes and in his favor he has access to resources that other mayors do not have. “He sells everything as if he were going to do it for all of Chile and it is not like that. One thing is to make a model and another thing is to be able to replicate it at the national level,” Kast told La Tercera about Mayor Lavín.

For Kast, being mayor is not being President and, in his opinion, the two positions are very different. He said that the decisions made by a President require another type of leadership and assured that he has no recollection of mayors having been President. “Joaquín Lavín has tried since the mayoralties and it did not work,” he added.

The former deputy told the newspaper that he intends to follow the same path that in 2017 led him to conquer 7.93% of the votes in the presidential elections: go to the first round and then talk with Chile.We are going to follow the steps. However, when asked about the possibility of reaching an agreement with the ruling party in electoral pacts such as, for example, in the municipal ones, Kast says that they do not close the door to say “how do we choose the best candidate for the different communes” but something that does they are clear:

“We do not want the communes, such as Las Condes and Recoleta, to have two candidates who do not want to be mayors, who want to be Presidents. And who use the springboard of the municipal election to campaign with the funds of the municipality to boost their presidential career. That seems unacceptable to me, it may be legal, but it is immoral, “said Kast, regarding the possible candidacies of mayors Jadue (PC) and Lavín (UDI).

According to Kast, it is unethical to run for mayor and run knowing that you do not want to be mayor. “The most probable thing is that we will say to the UDI well, we are going to primaries, but with the commitment that the one who wins will be mayor for four years.” In addition, he added that if the Republican Party signs that commitment, “then we tell Joaquín Lavín to be mayor for four years.”

“What we are not going to accept is that someone uses the position as a springboard for another, that is twisting the will of the law. Here there is a kind of collusion between Jadue and Lavín,” he concluded.



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