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As usual. After noon and without major surprises, the opposition – as expected, except for a last minute miracle – registered two lists of candidates for the Constitutional Convention. One is Chile Digno, a pact made up of the PC, the Broad Front, the Equality Party and some movements of the Social Unity Table. They inscribed the “I Approve Dignity” list. On the other hand, the rest of the opposition political parties and movements that make up the Constituent Unit pact, registered the “Approval List”. This group is made up of the DC, the PPD, the Radical Party, the PS and Ciudadanos, with the PRO plus members of Nuevo Trato, a movement made up of former members of the Broad Front.
Where the unit became much more fragile was in the list of mayors, councilors and governors, who are also elected on April 11. Despite the fact that in some communes there were primaries and those areas should be settled, there are several others in which negotiations have been unsuccessful as of press time. Especially because of the problems between the DC with the PS and the PPD to define candidates.
In an audio that circulated among the militants of the DC, the president of the party, Fuad Chahin, explained the bottom of the problem: “Unfortunately the Socialist Party, determined to compete in Quinta Normal, told us that it was not going to sign a pact with us We discussed the situation at a table meeting and pointed out that our disposition was total unity, however, we could not accept that a commune where we had mayor’s office would be taken away from us, which we also offered in primary school and they did not accept, “said Chahin. The contenders are Karina Delfino for PS and Francisco Duarte for DC
The result is that the PPD, with the PS and the PR registered their own pact of mayors. Although the Party for Democracy and the radicals assured that they will respect the agreements that are already sealed in other communes. While the DC signed a pact in the same sense with the Pro and Ciudadanos.
Special mention deserves what happened in the PPD. Shortly after the registration period ended, Senator Ricardo Lagos Weber wrote a post on Twitter using harsh terms against the party’s president, Heraldo Muñoz. “The PPD reinstalled the ‘culture of bad practices’ x part of the controlling partner and with the complacent attitude of Heraldo Muñoz … coherence in politics must always be and with the conspiratorial attitude of the President, the candidate supported by the bases in Valpo was left out … “, wrote Lagos. The senator was referring to the dispute he imposed on the former minister in Valparaíso of Transportation, Paola Tapia, who was as a candidate for the Constitutional Convention in the 13th district, where former minister Jorge Insunza stayed, who was involved in the scheme of irregular financing of politics due to the issuance of false ballots. Insunza left out the feminist sociologist Teresa Valdés. In Valparaíso the candidate “from the grassroots” was Leslie Sánchez, but they took her down at the last minute to put Tapia. While in district 6 Carlos Ominami is running as a candidate for constituent, also linked to the case with ballots SQM, although his case prescribed.
There were also problems in the PC pact, the party led by Guillermo Teillier until 8:00 pm yesterday was asking for support for its candidates for governor in the third and fourth regions, but neither the FA nor the FRVS gave it support. Therefore, they formed a new pact for regional governors. On this side of the opposition there were still no agreements regarding regional governors.
On the other hand, on the right, a few hours after the closing, there was also no agreement in the pending communes that were not resolved after the primaries. “There is nothing official and complaints are raining, candidates who are downloaded by mail,” commented an official source during the afternoon.
One of the top stones was Las Condes, where Mayor Lavín wants to leave Daniela Peñaloza, one of his collaborators, as a candidate. While RN and Evópoli were looking for their own candidacy. The right could not repeat the unit photograph that appeared for the registration of conventional. However, one of the negotiations that came to fruition at the last minute was the decision that Catalina Parot, former minister and president of the CNTV, compete for the Metropolitan regional government with Claudio Orrego (DC), while former deputy José Manuel Edwards will be the candidate in the Republican Party region.
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