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Virginia Reginato will not be able to run again to remain mayor of Viña del Mar after 16 years in command of the municipality, due to the new law approved this year that limits the re-election of authorities.
In order to nullify this impediment, the mayor filed a judicial appeal that has already been rejected in the first instance by the Santiago Court of Appeals, but which has yet to be resolved by the Supreme Court, El Mercurio de Valparaíso reported on Tuesday.
According to a report from this medium, Reginato’s legal action is directed against the president of the Electoral Service, Raúl García, and the president of the UDI, Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, for not giving approval to his request to re-apply, accusing that they violate their right.
The regional president of the UDI, Carlos Bannen, said that “there is a judicial appeal filed not only by the mayor Reginato, but also by several mayors throughout Chile, and we are awaiting the results of these legal actions to determine the way in which the candidate is to be chosen ”.
In the case of Viña del Mar, as the Supreme Court has not yet ruled, Bannen explains that if it were favorable to Reginato, “we would have to see it there.” “Here is a ruling from the courts that is pending (…) but so far we are governed by what the law indicates,” she said.
Chile’s response Vamos
RN’s candidate for mayor of the garden city, Raúl Célis, considers Virginia Reginato’s option to occupy the resources allowed by law to be legitimate.
However, “I believe that the opportunity in which the appeal is filed produces a loss for Chile Vamos because, in practical terms, it prevents the existence of primaries,” said Célis, according to El Mercurio de Valparaíso.
For his part, the Evópoli candidate, Georg Hubner, assured that the primaries are the method to define the candidates of the sector for Viña del Mar, indicating that “it is unpresentable that they want to violate the spirit of the law, which in that case is to be able to generate a limitation to the re-election of mayors ”.
📣 This Tuesday at El Mercurio de Valparaíso
🗞️ Reginato appeals to justice to hold on to the mayor of Viña
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