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In the traditional El Hoyo restaurant, in the center of Santiago, belonging to his family, Heraldo Muñoz launched his presidential candidacy on Wednesday to represent the Party for Democracy (PPD) in the race to reach La Moneda.
The former chancellor and current helmsman of the PPD formalized today what he had already confirmed in Cooperativa on Monday, but had decided for months: to compete to be the presidential card of his party and participate in an eventual opposition primary.
“I formally put my name to the consideration of the PPD to represent him as a presidential candidate and eventually for a primary of the center-left, “announced who was also Minister of the Segpres in the government of Ricardo Lagos.
Muñoz stated that this “It is the beginning of a collective project, the beginning of a conversation with citizens about pending tasks and the new challenges that our country has.”
Helmsman PPD Heraldo Muñoz launches candidacy for La Moneda @Cooperative pic.twitter.com/5cKpi4u9Wz
– Paola Aguillón (@Aguillonismo) October 28, 2020
The former head of Chilean diplomacy applauded the intentions of the former government spokesman Francisco Vidal, also PPD, and who days before had already confirmed his presidential candidacy.
“First, to congratulate Heraldo Muñoz because democratic competition is always good for the parties and for the country, and second, to remember that today too the former deputy Jorge TarudSo I can’t be happier, “said Vidal.
In fact, Tarud, PPD like the other two, made his presidential aspiration official today. “I am willing to gamble for Chile; I am going to compete in open primaries for the presidential candidacy of my party”, He manifested through a video that he published on his social networks.
I will compete for the presidential candidacy of my party in primaries https://t.co/Hh1D6gQq8K Citizenship demonstrated in the plebiscite their clamor to be part of the decisions. pic.twitter.com/1m0BCvUvlS
– Jorge Tarud (@JorgeTarud) October 28, 2020
Vidal agreed on the need for primaries open to define the presidential letter of the PPD: “We have to consult the citizens, if not, we did not learn anything last Sunday”, When citizens approved the development of a new Constitution through a fully elected body, he said.
LISTS OF THE OPPOSITION FOR THE CONVENTION
Another issue that keeps the opposition busy is the Constitutional Convention, as there is still no definition if they will agree on a single list to compete in the election of the conventional on April 11.
Muñoz said that “we must go to the convention on a single list of all the oppositionDon’t let it be said that you can’t, it’s a matter of political will. “
From the Constituent Unit, in the DC, his helmsman Fuad Chahín believes that achieving it is “unreal” because the spaces are very few “; while in the P.S., its president Álvaro Elizalde he points to a logic of “elementary arithmetic” to advocate for a single list, since – the senator raised – the D’Hondt system (mathematical method for proportional allocation of seats) “favors majority lists.”
From the Broad Front, the helmsman of the Democratic Revolution, deputy Catalina Pérez, has called not to give space to the “dispersion” of political forces seeking changes in the country.
[Audio] Boric: We must make an effort to look beyond our identities and go for the unity of the project #CooperativeInHome https://t.co/38Gb9s0WH7 pic.twitter.com/JNfftE0wZx
– Cooperativa (@Cooperativa) October 28, 2020
In that sense, the deputy Gabriel Boric (Social Convergence) called today in Cooperativa that progressive forces make an effort to go to those elections in “the fewest possible lists.”
“There is a temptation to claim each one his own identity and not mix with the next, independent of the common good”, but in “this unprecedented process – he urged – we must make the effort to look higher than our own identities, which one defends with so much determination in privacy; you have to advance through a project unit, around ideas, “he said.
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