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Another change was the internal elections of the UDI. If yesterday it was known that Pablo Longueira was leaving the race and left his position to the former Minister of the Interior, Víctor Pérez, this Friday it was known that the other competing list also suffered modifications, since the deputy María José Hoffmann declined at the last minute to be candidate, so her place will be taken by her partner Javier Macaya.
The “Creative Force” list of Macaya and Hoffmann registered their candidacy after 5 pm, after Víctor Pérez did the same, who arrived at the union headquarters accompanied by Pablo Longueira.
“Here are the brave people who are going to confront the left, who are going to work for the unity of our sector,” said Pepa Hoffmann, presenting Macaya and a list that she defined as “unitary and regionalist.”
The Macaya-Hoffmann payroll will be made up, among others, by the former Minister of Women Isabel Plá, the deputies Gustavo Sanhueza and Nicolás Noman and the mayor of La Reina, José Manuel Palacios.
The head of the UDI deputies bench took the opportunity to announce that she will go for the general secretary quota. “I do not get off anything,” he said.
Macaya, for his part, will try again to stay with the presidency of the UDI, after his attempt in 2018 when he lost to current president Jacqueline van Rysselberghe. “Two years ago the election went well, we got almost half of the votes,” said the parliamentarian for O’Higins, betting on getting the party presidency this time, this time competing against Víctor Pérez.
Hoffmann’s letter
Through a letter addressed to the militancy, Hoffmann communicated his decision to decline the candidacy for the presidency, noting that “many months ago we began an adventure whose first stage ends today with the registration of the lists for the National Directive. We toured Chile, we talked with thousands of militants, we summoned young people and historical leaders, we made countless calls for unity and we have built a proposal for the UDI of the future ”.
“The UDI must be filled with energy and strength to face the challenges that come; our party cannot endure any more divisions, that is why we are committed to unity; the leadership of the UDI is not about one person, that is why we are presenting a powerful team ”, He adds.
“The facts say more than a thousand speeches, that is why I wanted to crystallize this unity and team proposal in a concrete gesture: I have asked Javier Macaya to lead this new process,” he added.
“The UDI will surprise again, with energy, with love for Chile, aware of the historic moment we are living. We will once again be protagonists, we will reconvene and we will reconnect with the Chileans. That is the creative force!”, He concluded.
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