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He resigned on November 19 – although he communicated it on Thursday – from the party he founded with a hundred people. Today she aspires as an independent to carry out the transformations that led her to the military, but first she leaves several councils to those who follow the Democratic Revolution. Among them, not to entrench themselves and seek a broad unity in the center-left, an issue that, according to her, her former collectivity has not done and was one of the causes of her resignation.
What are the key reasons for your resignation from the DR?
It was a decision that was forged over time, it was not untimely, it was the product of a series of events that finally put RD where it is. In an FA that stresses a lot towards generating a pole strategy and not doing everything necessary to be able to generate the maximum possible unit.
But is there a particular fact that accounts for this?
What happened with the negotiations for primaries, on September 30, when two pacts were signed and other left forces were left out. At that moment a scenario begins to preconfigure that I see today difficult for the party to leave. Along that path I begin to lose internal space too, it doesn’t make much sense for me to continue inside.
What was missing in those negotiations? Maturity, driving?
There, what was most lacking was audacity. To go to challenge the old politics and demand broad primaries from all the center-left parties. It was the RD and the FA who were called upon to shake up the old guard in order to have powers that would allow us to provide a unitary alternative to the right.
Are you worried about the lack of unity in the election of constituents?
The only way to ensure that there is the least amount of dispersion in the vote is to agree on common points to challenge the neoliberal model and to allow for the transformations that the country requires. In that understanding, you have to even talk to the cat. But they have turned in the same circle doing small calculations, the parties are more concerned with bringing water to their mill.
Do you share what deputy Pablo Vidal raised in his letter to the militancy regarding the fact that a left pole is being generated in the Broad Front?
I have a difference with Deputy Vidal. I have a very leftist, Marxist matrix, and it doesn’t bother me that the party takes an ideological turn to the left. RD was born without a single ideological gaze. What I do think is losing the founding spirit of the party is wanting to build only with those who think like me. That is what basically keeps me away from the party. The tactical turn, we have built a path in which this open dialogue becomes more difficult and RD is becoming more and more in a corner. Building from the corner is always going to be much more difficult.
Are the DR’s decisions leading to political irrelevance?
No, it will never go into irrelevance, but I do believe that it has taken a path that makes RD a smaller party today than the party it was in 2017. Nor do I think that all is lost, RD can still make a process reflection and return to that founding spirit. RD has to take more definitions.
But do these definitions go through getting closer to the CP or the former Concertación?
The best thing would have been for us to challenge the rest to generate broad alliances. That did not happen and I do not know if today there is a real possibility of that happening, because there are trusts that are broken and it is very complex. RD is going to have to choose a path, whether to entrench himself in a pole or try to continue building a majority. I do not lose hope.
So you don’t have to choose between the PC or the former Concertación?
We need to form a broad alliance and we still have time. From the independent world that can be much more intension.
Has leadership been lacking from the relevant figures in the sector, at this time, such as Beatriz Sánchez or Giorgio Jackson?
I must be respectful of the dynamics of these Frente Amplio leaders, because collective processes are still privileged in the FA. However, at this point, given the decomposition in the opposition, I believe that all the meat must be taken out on the grill and all the leaders have to make themselves available to the unit. I am desperate that the next government will win Lavín in the middle of a constitutional process.
Does Beatriz Sánchez have to make a decision soon?
He has to make his decision soon, but more than one person, all political forces must be made available.
What do you answer to those who question your decision to resign from a party for which you came to Congress? You were dragged by another RD figure …
Although these criticisms may be valid, they fall into a trifle that fail to understand the complexity of this process. I have not changed my convictions at all since the day I was elected deputy for RD, what changed was RD.
Will he reinstate the House? Will it remain independent or will it seek a new party?
For now, I am going to stay until the end of my term as an independent deputy and I do not rule out anything for the future, but my energies are going to be concentrated so that the next government does not win the right wing.
