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One of the last times that the president of the DC, Fuad Chahin, and the mayor of Recoleta and president of the PC, Daniel Jadue, they lowered their guard and communicated as two old friends went in late August. On that occasion -according to someone close to Jadue- the mayor PC conveyed a greeting to Chahin after the arson attack suffered by their parents in the Araucanía Region.
It was a brief ceasefire in a relationship that in the last three years, it has gone from close friendship and complicity in the framework of the Palestinian cause to open animosity that has crossed the boundaries of politics and at various times has become personal.
Within days of the call in August, both returned to their political trenches. “All this somewhat arrogant attitude of Daniel Jadue shows that he is not capable of building the majorities, who still sees the world in black and white, in the logic of the Cold War, ”said Chahín at the beginning of September when announcing his reappointment to the presidency of his community.
In today’s interview in La Tercera, the DC helmsman once again marks the distance from the presidential PC: “Jadue and the PC make it more complex every day to hold an opposition primary, with their statements, with the disqualification, because they are more focused on themselves.”
Jadue’s tone towards Chahin has been no less harsh. “Hypocrite” is the least he has said, while he has accused an “anti-communist” attitude among the leaders of the former New Majority.
As described by a close to both, Chahin and Jadue were friends of those who invited each other to birthdays and visited each other at home.
Their bond and complicity was always around the Palestinian cause. Both, in their university period, were members of the General Union of Palestinian Students, which Jadue presided over between 1987 and 1991. And in 2006 they nominated the Palestinian Federation – which represents the Palestinian community of Chile before the Organization. for the Liberation of Palestine (PLO) and the Palestinian National Authority – under the leadership of Mauricio Abu-Gosh in which they were elected. One was vice president for political relations and the other for communications, and together they advocated for community renewal.
Chahin -according to those close to him- respects the work that Jadue has done over the years for the Palestinian community, his contribution in training young people and his commitment to the cause. A member of the community, in turn, assures that deep down Jadue also has esteem for Chahin and assures that it is not possible for contingent politics to distance them completely.
But the fact is that Since 2018 the relationship between the two has become hostile, at least in public. Jadue’s criticism of the DC and of Chahin’s leadership has not gone unnoticed.
Chahin, meanwhile, as he did through social networks, has recalled several times that it was one of the bridges that made it possible for the DC to support the two candidacies of Jadue in Recoleta that -according to his surroundings- generated many doubts within the match. And then he went personally to present his campaign to the commune as a deputy and then as DC vice president.
Today there is no possible dialogue between the two and as the presidential candidacy of the communist mayor progresses and the distance between the CP and the Constituent Unit increases in the face of the formation of electoral pacts, the friendship that was once strong is increasingly diluted.
Former PPD senator Eugenio Tuma, however, is an optimist. Like both leaders, he is an active participant in the Palestinian community and has known them well for years. From his point of view, the discrepancies due to contingent policy – in his opinion – will not be the reason for a definitive break. “Before being DC and being communists, Daniel Jadue and Fuad Chahin are Palestinians and that is going to prevail over anything,” he says.
The president of the DC and Mayor Jadue were contacted for this note. None expressed an opinion.
