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It was something they had been broadcasting for days. But it was this Sunday, in meetings with the Progressive Convergence and the Unit for Change, that the Frente Amplio formally notified their peers of their unwavering decision not to attend municipal primaries and regional governors with the rest of the center-left.
“The Broad Front continues working (…) to advance in mechanisms of territorial coordination through mutual omissions that allow, on the one hand, to recognize our legitimate differences and, on the other, to join forces to offer competitive citizen alternatives to Chile. We go according to each reality territorial”they maintained on Sunday in a statement from the national table of that coalition.
In that sense, they assured that the bloc “will not hesitate to compete against all candidates that, regardless of their coalition, have perpetuated corruption, patronage or represent projects far from the necessary transformations (…). We have been promoters and defenders of the primaries as a democratic mechanism for defining candidacies within the framework of a unitary political project, therefore, we discard the proposal of a single national pact for primaries that ignores our differences with the conservative and neoliberal sectors of the country present. , as has been reaffirmed in recent days, in sectors of the former New Majority ”.
The decision was made just 72 hours after the deadline for registering candidates expires on September 30. to said elections before the Electoral Service and was lamented in harsh terms by the rest of the opposition, from the PC to the DC. In fact, the rest of the center-left pointed out that with the unchecking of the conglomerate it made no sense for them to insist on registering global primaries and, on the contrary, they aimed to give themselves a greater negotiation margin until January. This, despite the fact that the Frente Amplio assured that in any case they will register primaries in some regions and communes, for example, in the case of Valparaíso.
In the previous days, the former Nueva Mayoría had publicly summoned their partners to win primaries, at least in terms of regional governors. Even the Unit for Change, a bloc that makes up the PC, PRO and the FRVS, had realized their availability to join this effort “in search of not allowing the right to win all the governorates,” said the communist helmsman, Guillermo Teillier.
For some in the opposition, understanding regarding governors was the cornerstone that would allow ordering the design with respect to the rest of the elections. However, en the Frente Amplio maintain that they had transmitted for weeks that they were not in that provision and that, in fact, on Sunday they decided to make their position official after progress was made in the negotiation of omissions in different sectors.
Those who knew about the negotiations, in any case, assure that the bloc would have “overdrawn” by asking to compete in more than ten regions and in more than 150 communes., something that in any case was ruled out by its leaders.
“Unfortunately the FA’s resolution. The so-called new generation prefers the old political arrangements of omission between parties, instead of open primaries, “said the president of the PPD, Heraldo Muñoz. While his PS pair, Álvaro Elizalde, called on the bloc to change its mind and privilege the uniond. “Unfortunately there are those who insist that time is the shaping of individual identities,” she said.
The helmsman of the DC, Fuad Chahin, pointed out, meanwhile, that “the same ones who promised the renewal of politics, repeat the worst of the old politics; a spurious negotiation, back to the citizens, back to the territories and through cuoteo. It seems to me not only incomprehensible but also completely inconsistent ”.
But the bloc’s decision not only had consequences with the rest of the opposition, but also it also provoked internal objections. RD deputies Pablo Vidal and Natalia Castillo immediately distanced themselves from the determination, which they described as “a profound error.”
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