[Minuto a Minuto] Primaries: Tables close and vote counting begins

18:46 –

| Governors Primary: In the Metropolitan Region, with 41.27% of polls scrutinized, Karina Oliva (Commons, Frente Amplio) continues to lead, with 40.86% of the votes; and Claudio Orrego (DC, Constituent Unit), with 46.26% #CooperativaEnCasa

18:45 –

| #CooperativaEnCasa In # LaAraucanía, with 30.23% of votes counted, the primary of governors Eugenio Tuma (PPD, Constituent Unit) and Luis Levi (Ecologists and Independientes) #CooperativaRegiones are winning

18:44 –

| Macarena Matas, candidate for mayor of # Machalí, could not vote because her table was not constituted: “I am the only candidate from Chile Vamos who could not vote in her own election” #CooperativaRegiones

18:41 –

| Board members of the Liceo Domingo Espiñeira Riesco of #Ancud already terminate their work, as in the other tables of the archipelago #CooperativaRegiones

18:39 –

| #CooperativaRegiones In the merged tables 141-142-143, in the Biobío College of # Concepción, there were only 2 votes cast in the regional governor primary #CooperativaEnCasa

18:36 –

| Governors Primary: In the Metropolitan, with 20.78% of the polls scrutinized, Karina Oliva continues to lead in the Broad Front, with 41.5% of the votes; and Claudio Orrego, in the Constituent Unit, with 44.82% #CooperativaEnCasa

18:34 –

| #CooperativaEnCasa Primary Governors: In # Valparaíso, with 10.8% of the votes counted, the partial results give as winners the leader of Modatima Rodrigo Mundaca, and the former rector Aldo Valle #CooperativaRegiones

18:33 –

| Metropolitan Region: With 5.85% of the polls scrutinized, Karina Oliva (Comunes) leads the primary for governors of the Broad Front, and Claudio Orrego (DC), that of the Constituent Unit

18:31 –

| Beatriz Sánchez criticizes the fact that there were more than 1,000 unincorporated tables at the national level: “How many people could not vote? No more obstacles to participation!”

18:29 –

| Votes are also counted at the Domingo Espiñeira Riesco High School in Ancud

18:27 –

| In the Biobío School of # Concepción an express vote count is carried out, marked by the low participation in all the #CooperartivaEncasa tables

18:25 –

| The votes are already counted in the Diego Portales High School of #Talca, where it is estimated that only 400 people out of about 6,000 qualified #CooperativaEnCasa

18:24 –

| Other factors that had an influence, said Tuma, “was the lack of information (…) and the lack of transport for the rural world”

18:22 –

| Eugenio Tuma (PPD), a pre-candidate for # LaAraucanía, attributed the low participation to “the lack of promotion and dissemination that the Government deliberately did not want to carry out” #CooperativaEnCasa

18:22 –

| Helmsman DC, Fuad Chahín, rescues the process and the “learning”, but questions that the Servel should have “anticipated” that there would be tables that were not going to be constituted: “There were people who could not vote, it cannot happen again” # CooperativaEnCasa

18:17 –

| Claudio Orrego, a candidate for governor of the Metropolitan Region, arrived at the headquarters of the DC to wait for the results #CooperativaEnCasa

18:15 –

| National Roundtable of the Broad Front calls on the Servel to “respond” and remedy “immediately” the right of those who could not vote #CooperativaEnCasa

18:11 –

| Mauricio Morales, a political scientist, argues that the responsibility for not installing tables “does not lie with the Servel; the law will have to be improved, but the Servel is not to blame for the fact that the members do not fulfill their duty” #CooperativaEnCasa

18:09 –

| At 6:00 p.m. the voting closed and the vote counting is already beginning in some tables #CooperativaEnCasa

18:02 –

| #CooperativaEnCasa Óscar Landerretche could not vote in the primaries either: “My table had not been set up. ‘Make a claim’, they told me”

14:40 –

| The president of the PPD Heraldo Muñoz could not vote because his table was not constituted

14:39 –

| After several complaints from voters, Servel defended himself from questioning by tables that were not constituted.

14:18 –

| Minister Rodrigo Delgado: “We have to ask ourselves why there is less participation in the primaries (…) This is not the time to look responsible“#CooperativaEnCasa

14:06 –

| Minister Rodrigo Delgado and criticism for lack of information regarding the primaries: “Political parties also have a role, because a candidate will be chosen from within their ranks“#CooperativaEnCasa

14:03 –

| the Governor of the province of Concepción, Julio Anativia, stressed that “has verified that, in general, there has been good compliance and development of the process… In an orderly manner without incident“.

14:01 –

| In the Biobío Region, meanwhile, a low participation in the primaries also stands out.

13:41 –

| The mayor of Valparaíso, Jorge Sharp, pointed out that “due to the lack of table members, the tables have not been established and there are people who have not been able to vote.” #CooperativaEnCasa

13:35 –

| % u201CR Regarding the consultation of electoral interventionism, I think it is an artificial conflict that has been overcome, today is the day of the election, and What I invite is that the neighbors come and presume at the polls which candidate for mayor they want for April% u201D, raised Consuelo Alvial, candidate for mayor of Lo Barnechea.

12:23 –

| Table vowels They are calm although they highlight low participation: “We have more candidates than vote in the ballot box“

12:21 –

| Sebastián Depolo (RD): “This election needed a much larger information campaign than Servel did. The State and the Government are at fault” #CooperativaEnCasa

11:52 –

| Candidate for governor of the RM Sebastián Depolo (RD): “The right did not want this election and tried by all possible means to hinder them (…) They are not interested in giving up power” #CooperativaEnCasa

11:40 –

| The mayoral candidate for Vitacura, Pablo Zalaquett (UDI): “We have a great challenge for older adults. We have to give young people many more opportunities”

11:37 –

| Candidate for governor for RM Claudio Orrego (DC): “We invite you to come and vote. This begins the path of decentralization of power in Chile … It is very important for our democracy” #CooperativaEnCasa

11:34 –

| The PS candidate for governor for the RM, Álvaro Erazo: “We know that we will not have the participation of the Approval. I have not heard any government spokesman calling for elections” #CooperativaEnCasa

11:31 –

| Helia Molina (PPD), candidate for metropolitan governor, expressed her concern about little participation in primaries: There has been almost a boycott, there was no information #CooperativaEnCasa

10:24 –

| Candidates for Metropolitan Regional Governor, Álvaro Erazo (P.S), Helia Molina (PPD), Claudio Orrego (DC), Karina Oliva (Common), María José Fulfilled (PL) and Sebastian Depolo (RD) have not yet voted.

10:23 –

| “All of Chile Vamos must unite behind the winner“, said Del Real, who competes in these primaries of Vitacura with the mayor of the UDI, Pablo Zalaquett.

10:20 –

| In Vitacura, the RN mayoral candidate, Max del Real, noted that “I hope many people participate. We do not have any comparison indicator in our commune. Hopefully everyone participates“.

18:58 –

| Of the 21,281 polling stations, there are already 6,163 constituted, equivalent to 28.96 percent of the total, according to the first bulletin of the Servel #CooperativaEnCasa

16:16 –

| President of the Chilean Red Cross: In the National Stadium, the largest voting center in the country, “we are going to have electric ambulances and bi-ambulances” #CooperativaEnCasa

16:13 –

| President of the Chilean Red Cross, María Teresa Cienfuegos, one day before the primaries: “We are going to have first aid posts, psychosocial support and assisted voting” #CooperativaEnCasa

16:12 –

| At the Higher Institute of Commerce (Insuco), the president of the Servel Board of Directors, Patricio Santamaría, officially began the process of setting up tables for the #CooperativaEnCasa primaries

13:32 –

| For these elections, the voting hours will be from 08:00 to 18:00.

13:32 –

| “I do not have an estimate, but the Electoral Service has spoken of 30 percent. Those are the projections that I have heard from the president of the Electoral Service,” said Guevara

13:32 –

| “In the case of the Metropolitan Region and 660 locals, 13 thousand police officers, both from the Carabineros and the Investigative Police, the Army and the Air Force, who are already guarding within the voting premises and also outside polling places “, detailed Felipe Guevara

13:31 –

| There are 660 polling stations in the Metropolitan Region alone, which are already guarded by Army and Carabineros personnel.

13:30 –

| The Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado, in the company of the metropolitan mayor, Felipe Guevara, visited the Superior Institute of Commerce this Saturday, one of the voting places for tomorrow’s primaries.