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In Chile Vamos, everything was smiles, while in the opposition the atmosphere was funeral. This is how we can summarize what happened this Wednesday when the deadline for the political parties and their different electoral alliances to formalize the pacts for the municipal primaries and the regional governors before the Electoral Service. On the right there was finally white smoke, while the center-left and the left were chewing on a new failure to reach a broad agreement.
The recriminations in the opposition were mutual. “Those responsible will have to give explanations later, but there were some who came asking for armor plating,” accused the President of the PPD, Heraldo Muñoz, who participated in the unsuccessful opposition meeting at the PS headquarters.
David Morales, DC’s national secretary, admitted in turn that “we have failed in the negotiations, that without a doubt. Each one will have to make their mea culpa ”. But incidentally he lashed out at the Frente Amplio, accusing that its leaders got up from the table and went to Servel first to register their own primary, leaving the negotiation at a standstill.
In the same tone, Álvaro Elizalde, president of the PS, accused that some “withdrew from the meeting and registered primaries behind our backs.” “I’m sorry, many tweets, many statements, but at the time you have to commit, they do not attend,” he said.
“The point is not who left the meeting first, and the FA was not the one who did it,” replied the President of the Democratic Revolution, Catalina Pérez, while his colleague from Commons, Jorge Ramírez, assured –the registration process for the FA primaries in the Servel has already finished– that “our electoral and negotiating team is still at the PS headquarters (…), we were until the last moment trying to build an agreement without shielding and with all the opposition”.
In the Broad Front they insist that the “basic programmatic minimums” that were put on the table were not met, “without shielding, without corruption, with open competition, democracy and decentralization.” “If we could not reach an agreement, it was because, despite being minimal and after everything that has happened in Chile, the deep political crisis that we have experienced, some sectors of the opposition still find it a lot,” said the Vice President of Social Convergence, Francisca Perales.
After the failure of the negotiations, the opposition parties were already advancing the competition. “The Christian Democrats are prepared to compete in the 16 regions of Chile, therefore, on January 11 we are going to register candidates in the 16 regions of the country for governors. The National Board proclaimed 180 candidates for mayors and mayors and we hope to compete in that number or in more communes in the country. The decision of the citizenry must be handed over, not to the political parties, not to the negotiations, and in that we are going to continue pushing with great force, ”said the DC national secretary.
“Plan B”
However, in this scenario, a “Plan B” emerged. Taking advantage of the fact that the Servel has a deadline until midnight, the block Progressive Convergence, made up of the PS, the PPD and the PR, materialized a pact of primaries throughout the country at the governors, adding to the DC, in a “Renaissance” of the Concertación. The PRO and Ciudadanos joined the agreement, reported from the Progressive Convergence. This pact was called “Constitutional Unit”.
The parties finalized the negotiations, and made the announcement, hardening the tone against the Broad Front. “Given the decision taken by the Broad Front, we are doing our responsibility to register and represent a very important part of the opposition. What is required is unity, this is the time for unity ”, said Heraldo Muñoz
The president of PPD took the opportunity to accuse the Broad Front of “supposedly calling for primaries in all regions and privately they asked for shields for at least 6 regions. So, facts and not words: you have to be consistent in public and in private ”.
Elizalde complemented the foregoing, noting that “we have reached a proposal for primaries as broad as possible within the opposition, we would have liked it with all the opposition actors, but unfortunately there are those who wanted to self-marginalize and resolve their internal affairs with their own primaries” .
Still, there is concern for what is to come. “This is a bad sign, here the parties are not responding to the public,” he said. Heraldo Muñoz.
“We are clearly not responding to the demands of the people. There are some who speak to us of unity, of having open primaries in all regions, but they have come asking for shielding, that is the reality ”, he stressed.
White smoke in Chile Let’s go
In Chile Vamos, meanwhile, the atmosphere was diametrically opposite. The official parties arrived at the headquarters of the Servel before the fatal deadline to register the primaries, unlocking the conflictive knots such as Vitacura and Lo Barnechea, where there will be internal competition on November 29 between the different communities to settle the candidacy for mayor.
“I have had to negotiate different elections and the truth is that you have to see the glass half full (…). Here the parties, particularly Renovación Nacional and the UDI, put the good of Chile above personal interests ”, said the President of the UDI, Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe, highlighting in passing that “unity prevailed and, as in any negotiation, everyone gives a little.”
In the opinion of the union president, it was “a good negotiation, where Chile Vamos is going to emerge strengthened in the election of governors and municipalities. Vitacura was the most visible, but not necessarily the capstone. There were different complicated situations throughout Chile ”.
Rafael Prohens, President of RNHe also stressed that the parties have resolved the “bottlenecks” of the negotiation. “At least as National Renewal we are very happy with the agreement and we hope that this unity of today will be finalized later in the parliamentary and in the presidential one,” he said.
The helmsman RN passing through assured that his party gave a signal in this negotiation in Chile Vamos and de-dramatized that the community has to compete in the primaries in Vitacura and Lo Barnechea: “We trust that we are going to retain the two communes at the polls,” Indian.
For his part, leader of Evópoli Felipe Kast –One of those who hit the table during the negotiation, even threatening a bankruptcy in Chile Vamos– withdrew satisfied. “We are satisfied, within the diversity of this coalition, unity prevails, and it will be the neighbors of those communes who will elect their candidates,” said the senator, adding that not only Vitacura was the top stone, but also Temuco, Father Las Casas, Copiapó, Antofagasta and other emblematic communes, where thanks to the agreement reached there will be primaries.
Meanwhile, the President of the PRI, Rodrigo Caramori, highlighted “the generosity shown by the four parties, including parties that for many years had figures who led important communes and today they have opened to a competition. That shows that Chile Vamos today is more current than ever”
In Chile Vamos, in any case, the primaries in Las Condes and Providencia were ruled out, an option that appeared in the heat of the negotiation. Both communes are under the command of Joaquín Lavín and Evelyn Matthei, two potential presidential letters. In total, the ruling party will compete in primaries in 6 regions for governors and in 37 communes for mayors.
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