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After a day marked by the negotiations within Chile We are facing the municipal elections next year, the coalition agreed to hold primaries on November 29 in Vitacura and Lo Barnechea, key communes for the ruling party.
A few minutes before the deadline set for 5:00 p.m. expired, the presidents and secretaries of the bloc’s parties They came to the Electoral Service to formalize the pact.
The elections to define the mayoral candidates who will compete representing the ruling party will also take place in Viña del Mar, Recoleta, Antofagasta, Padre Las Casas, Iquique, Copiapó, Vallenar, La Unión, Coquimbo, Catemu, Olmué, Panquehue, Papudo, Concón, Santo Domingo, Valparaíso, Tiltil, La Cisterna, Paine, Coltauco, Machalí, Mostazal , Requinoa, Christmas, San Fernando, Curicó, San Javier, Chillán, Chillán Viejo, San Pedro de La Paz, Lota, Nacimiento, Temuco, Corral, Río Bueno, Osorno, Puerto Montt and Coyhaique.
At the Servel headquarters, the UDI helmsman Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe, said that a “Good negotiation” for Chile Vamos. Meanwhile, the RN helmsman, Rafael Prohens He maintained that the coalition was put on “over personal interests.” “RN is very happy with the agreements we have had and we hope that this unit will take shape in the future in the parliamentary and in the future presidential”commented the senator.
Although the latter party had also proposed holding primaries in Las Condes and Providencia, this possibility was finally ruled out. As explained by the leaders, it was decided not to focus the efforts on communes whose current mayors would go for re-election.
The tensions within the coalition date back to last week when the UDI made Pablo Zalaquett official as its letter to compete for the municipality of Vitacura.
That day, the party made clear its intention that primaries also be held to define the only candidate that the conglomerate leads in that commune, as well as in others at the country level.
However, the general secretary of RN, Felipe Cisternas, rejected the option, assuring that “many advisers and activists have invoked plausible and not whimsical reasons for not supporting the former mayor of Santiago.” He also insisted that in the national council last Saturday a position would be taken on this.
However, the party He went from being entrenched until yesterday in refusing to do primaries in the commune of Raúl Torrealba to opening up to them, but with the requirement that they also be held in Lo Barnechea, Las Condes and Vitacura, as recorded The Third PM.
Finally, and after a day of intense negotiations, the coalition decided to hold elections to define candidates in the municipalities of Lo Barnechea and Vitacura.
Regarding why this was ruled out for Las Condes and Providencia, – communes led by the presidents Joaquín Lavín and Evelyn Matthei respectively – Van Rysselberghe explained that “They are candidates who are initially going for reelection, that will have to be seen later, therefore it was not worth focusing the discussion on a situation that is hypothetical”.
“It may be that both of them go to re-election, that one of them goes to re-election or neither of them go to re-election”added the UDI helmsman.
He agreement in Chile Vamos contrasted with the breakdown in the negotiations in the opposition, where not only was there no consensus to register primaries, but alsoThe Broad Front ended up entering the Servel with its own pact while the former New Majority accused them of do it “behind the back” of the rest of the parties.
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