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Seventeen days after the legal deadline to register pacts and candidacies for legal primaries of regional governors, mayors and mayors, the Progressive Convergence parties (PS, PPD and PR) reaffirmed their decision to promote broad agreements, with all parties and center-left movements, to unitarily face these electoral challenges, preventing in such a way, they point out, “that the right, being a socially minority political force and refractory to changes, can obtain an institutional over-representation that hinders the clearly expressed will for change. by citizenship “.
Through a public statement, the presidents of the PS, Alvaro Elizalde; from the PPD, Heraldo Muñoz; and from the PR, Carlos Maldonado; expressed their willingness to promote and participate, as a Progressive Convergence, in broad opposition primaries, and invited the parties and movements grouped in Unity for Change, the Broad Front, the Christian Democrats and, in general, all the forces and sectors of the broadest spectrum of progressivism, “to join this purpose, so that it is the citizenship that defines the new communal and regional leaderships of the center-left, which will confront the right in the election of Mayors, Mayors and Governors ( as) Regional “.
“We understand the opposition primaries as a whole as an ideal and participatory mechanism to achieve unity and the sum of forces necessary to build majorities. For this reason, we encourage the holding of broad and not partial primaries, since the latter would not contribute to the unity, but, on the contrary, it would consolidate the division of the progressive forces, “they pointed out, pointing out that, if the necessary wills or conditions do not exist for the realization of broad primaries of the center-left,” we will continue to be committed to building unity, and working to achieve it. “
“The neoliberalism that identifies the right wing has hurt Chile, it is contrary to the interests of the great national majorities and the construction of a fairer and more humane society. For this reason, we will continue to do everything in our power to strengthen the unity of the opposition, reach agreements on programmatic bases, and build a solid alternative for change and the future for Chile, “they concluded.
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