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There are some who say that Patricio Kuhn (UDI) does not harm or overshadow anyone in Chile Vamos, that is why his arrival at the Bío Bío Intendancy, replacing Sergio Giacaman, would be considered as helpful to political campaigns electoral, at least for unionism next year.
Giacaman resigned to seek a congressional seat next year, as did Martín Arraú in Chillán and 10 provincial governors.
At least that is how the PS deputy, Manuel Monsalve, thinks, who, like several parliamentarians at the local, official and opposition levels, question that there is a third regional head in the Bío Bío, in just three years of the Chilean government. if it is a charge that will expire next May, with the arrival of the newly elected regional governor.
What will you do as regional head in just over 5 months?
“More than not hurting anyone, it will be useful to the electoral interests of the UDI. It is put there because it is a person of confidence of the senator (Jacqueline van Rysselberghe) and because it will be functional to the electoral strategy. Giacaman will be a candidate and will also serve his electoral purpose, “said the deputy. Manuel Monsalve.
“The Region is co-opted by a group of people who use the Regional Government for their electoral interests and is relegated to a leadership that does not think about the Bío Bío,” added the same parliamentarian from District 21.
As Monsalve says, a union electoral strategy that before has maneuvered with the figure of Kuhn in other instances.
As happened with the Concepción mayoralty, when it took over as communal chief in 2010, after being elected as a councilor with 631 votes in 2008 and with whose meager political capital it should have been used to replace Senator Van Rysselberghe herself, who, paradoxically, took over as mayor of Bío Bío to face post-earthquake reconstruction.
A decade later, this Friday, November 20, Patrick kuhn arrives at the same position that its national party leader held in 2010, as if the Bío Bío Intendancy were equal to the Municipality of Concepción, but, this time, with a Senator Van Rysselberghe who wove the threads behind the scenes and demonstrated, once again , who commands the ruling party in the Bío Bío Region and others to eat popcorn.
To the forward of JVR
The positions in the Penquista municipality were the first steps in relevant public positions of Patricio Kuhn.
After replacing JVR as mayor of Concepción, it was thought that Kuhn could assume the candidacy for mayor in 2012, as a political career implies.
However, he was relegated and that challenge was taken up by Emilio Armstrong, another militant who has served as the faithful forward of the UDI national helmsman, in the Kuhn style, and whom she wanted in the penquista chair.
While Kuhn ran for councilor and was elected for the second time in Concepción.
After completing his term in 2016, Kuhn preferred to take a leap and decided not to go for re-election as a Penquista councilor, I wait until 2017 and he disputed a quota to the Bío Bío Regional Council and was also elected, with just over 11 thousand votes and was the first majority in his area, Concepción 2.
But, three years later he receives the call from JVR again, Giacaman must be replaced.
Kuhn, faithful as he has been throughout his political career in public office, assumes the requested challenge, resigns as regional councilor and becomes mayor of the Bío Bío, this time not with 631 votes, but with little more than 11 thousand votes as its political capital.
To consign, to the above, it is added that after internal struggles of the same UDI at the local level, the former Penquista mayor assumed, also under Van Rysselberghe’s guidelines, as regional president of the party, and now he must also be replaced.
By whom… ..?
Fire friend
But it was not only the opposition that criticized the changes on the fourth floor of the building on Avenida Prat 525 in the center of Concepción.
The UDI deputy for district 21, Ivan Norambuena, He stressed that “it is not good for governments that have such short periods, of 4 years, to have a rotation like the one seen in this region in the case of the mayor. Nor is it good for the Chilean unit. We are going to have certain preferences with some electoral intentions, where it has been said that one of the reasons for the resignations from the positions is that ”.
“When certain positions are assumed, to seek the welfare of our people in the region, it does not seem right to me that this is used to face campaigns in the future,” he added.
“I do not take responsibility for the intentions of certain political authorities in the region, including some of my party, and that unfortunately there has been the inclination and orientation of looking for people who have the option of being actors and being political agents and operators in the region. I hope that with Patricio Kuhn, that I do not achieve “, closed Norambuena in direct criticism of the UDI national president.
In defence
The national union helmsman, Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, as it would seem obvious, defended the appointment of Patricio Kuhn.
“Kuhn is a person who had to face, from the municipality of Concepción, the reconstruction after the earthquake, he has experience in management and also knows the Regional Government since it was a core with a high vote, without a doubt it will be a contribution to the contribution of the government of President Piñera ”, highlighted the senator Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe.
Regarding the criticism of Kuhn, which is a political strategy, he said that “it is the first time that I have heard that having the capacity for dialogue is a problem, it seems to me that what is said is unfounded “.
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