Socialist Party: “The Broad Front inscribed its pact behind our backs”

10/01/2020 Chile



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He President of the Socialist Party, Álvaro Elizalde, accused that the Broad Front registered its own pact for primaries “behind” the negotiation that the opposition parties were holding, And although he assured that they will insist on advocating for unity on the center-left and on the left, he warned that what happened “damages trust.”

After two intense days, the opposition did not reach an agreement yesterday to hold joint legal primaries for the municipal and regional governor elections scheduled for April 2021, unlike the result that Chile Vamos did achieve, where there were also previous tensions in this regard.

After the Broad Front registered its primaries alone in the Electoral Service, minutes before the deadline expired at 5:00 p.m., finally the PS, PPD, PR and DC -the former Concertación- sealed an agreement to define their candidacies at the polls, a pact to which they joined the PRO and Citizens; all within the framework of the negotiations that took place in the socialist headquarters.

“Yesterday we were summoned at 11:00 in the morning, but the Unity for Change, with the Communist Party, and the Broad Front, met in parallel before and arrived at the meeting at 1:30 pm with a proposal: They indicated that they were going to act together and the issue of shielding was raised, six regions for one part of the opposition and six for another “, explained Elizalde in The Cooperative Journal.

Given this, “we pointed out that we did not want shielding, that we understood that citizens had to decide democratically, and While we were still talking, we learned that the Broad Front was registering, behind our backs and without informing us, a pact of primaries to solve its internal problems“, he accused.

“We were at our headquarters and there were bilaterals,” he said, “until at one point, just after 4 (in the afternoon), we indicated that all the presidents and general secretaries attend to see if we can continue to reach an agreement and approach positions, and at that moment all the parties arrive, but it caught our attention that no president or general secretaries of the FA; we asked and (they told us) that they are in the Servel (…) and that I had never seen before.

“SERIOUSLY INJURIES TRUST”

Elizalde questioned that “there were parties that were in a different frown, that believe that the division is virtuous, that sometimes they send a tweet talking about unity, but their actions go in the opposite direction.”

In that framework, “We concur to the understanding of regional primaries those parties that really had the will of unshielded primaries and are in favor of unity (…) a pact that encompasses the majority of the opposition (…) more serious and responsible (… ), but unfortunately it is not complete; we were for the unity of all, without exclusions “.

He stressed that both he and the Socialists pursue “unity with everyone, unless someone tells me that it is good that we are divided so that the right wing wins; the division is bad and does not contribute to what the country demands: to generate an alternative with a vocation of majority to those who govern today, who have done so badly “. Thus, “We are going to continue fighting for unity, but that does not mean that obviously what happened yesterday seriously damages trust.”

HURTS PERSPECTIVES BEFORE CONSTITUENT PROCESS

The senator also argued that if unity is not achieved in the entire opposition, it could cause that in the eventual election of conventional, in the constituent process, there is a “overrepresentation” of those sectors that today are for the Rejection.

This was exemplified by what happened in the 2017 parliamentary elections: “Piñerismo obtained between 37 and 38 percent of the votes, and elected approximately 47 percent of the deputies, that is, they were 13 points behind the majority absolute, but in the elected, three points. Why? Because they were united, and we were divided, “he said.

Given this, the former government spokesman warned that “Those who believe that the division is virtuous and are in the logic of the individual profile and identity of their party, finally are functional to the sectors that oppose the changes that Chile demands. That is why we insist on unity without exclusions. “

PRESIDENT OF RD: “I DON’T LIKE LIES”

Also in El Diario de Cooperativa, the helmsman of the Democratic Revolution, Deputy Catalina Pérez, He replied to what Elizalde said and lashed out: “I don’t like the lies that are installed.”

In that sense, he contextualized that “the term on which the negotiating table of the entire opposition worked was at 5 in the afternoon, for that reason the president of the Radical Party, of the PPD, left to evict the agreement at approximately 4:40 “.

In the meantime, he specified that “we from the Broad Front were going to register municipal primaries anyway, something that was ruled out a few days ago at the opposition table, and therefore we asked the Servel for time like any citizen, within the deadline “.

He related that as FA requested an appointment at 4:30 in the afternoon, and before, “at 4:20, a little late, we say at the negotiation table: ‘kids, we have to go to the Servel, we are not going to register primaries until this table finishes deliberating. ‘” But already being in the Electoral Service, they learned that “At 4:40, some presidents of the Progressive Convergence (PS, PPD, and PR) come out to evict the agreement; and therefore, we registered the Broad Front municipal primary.”

For this reason, he retorted that “To say that the Frente Amplio deceived the table, that we were hidden from the Servel, is simply to be untruthful about what happened”, especially considering – he stressed – that “the FA, from the beginning to the end of the negotiations, said that it was willing to compete in the 16 regions, please agree if you want mutual omissions in some regions, and that was what made it not agreed yesterday. “

“WE BELIEVE IN THE UNIT OF OPPOSITION WITH MINIMUM ETHICS”

Outside of that episode, Pérez agreed with Elizalde on the need for opposition unity, for which he urged that “The worst thing we can do is fall into mutual disqualifications: We have been quite careful in the Broad Front not to be pointing the finger at those who were not available to reach an agreement “, which could mean” a sad end to this story, rather than a setback for the continuity of the road. “

“We are in a political moment in which citizens demand unity, with purpose, ideas, not because they are electoral, but with content. It is fatal that this scenario should be repeated for the constituent process,” he said.

In the opinion of the deputy, “in each and every one of these upcoming electoral stages, “the opposition cannot repeat what happened yesterday and must be able to advance in agreements for two objectives: because Chile Vamos does not govern again, and that we can give guarantees that things will be done differently from how they have been done in the last 30 years, to advance transforming political projects. “

Asked about the reactions of other deputies of her party, such as Pablo Vidal, who considered what happened yesterday as “a heartbreaking, historic mistake”, and Natalia Castillo, who regretted the result of the negotiations and criticized that “The leadership of the center-left political parties did not measure up”, the RD helmsman admitted that “Nobody was satisfied with what happened.”

“We said it since Monday, when we managed to resume negotiations, We believe in the unity of the opposition with ethical minimums, closing the door to corruption, to client networks and talking about principles and ideas on the table. We are going to continue pushing for that, we still have the constituent process, the presidential election, and the opposition cannot make a mistake, “said Pérez.

FUNCTIONAL DIVISION RIGHT? “UNBELIEVABLE THAT THE FA MUST TAKE CARE”

Regarding an alleged functionality of the opposition division in favor of the right, the deputy made a parallel with the last presidential election and stated that it is “unreasonable to think that the Broad Front should be responsible for the victory of the right when it was the Concertación that ruled for 30 years“.

He recalled that “when we did not organically support Alejandro Guillier, it was because he did not commit himself to the end of the AFPs or the constituent assembly, so when the unit to which you are invited is unity based on the fact that others do not govern to make sense; Let’s talk about unity, but with ideas on the table, because if there are profound differences, how are we going to govern together? “

However, although “we have profound differences with the former New Majority, and in particular the former Concertación that we feel is rearming yesterday,” he reaffirmed that “there is provision on the part of all the actors to build unity; To think otherwise would be not to recognize the political moment that the country is experiencing, another thing is how we manage to materialize it. “



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