UDI leaders open debate and propose that Lavín and Matthei go to primary school in Chile Vamos



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“A UDI presidential primary would be absurd, you have to be with whoever has the best chance of winning.” The phrase of the union leader, Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, given yesterday in an interview with Third, opened a discussion between several leaders of that community, considering that the party has mayors Joaquin Lavin and Evelyn matthei as possible candidates for La Moneda.

In this context, parliamentarians of the community came out, on the one hand, to support Van Rysselberghe’s criterion, while others questioned the advancement of a definition and even raised that Lavín and Matthei could be taken together to a presidential primary of Chile Come on.

“I agree that a primary could end up hurting or dividing the UDI at this time, when everyone knows and recognizes the leadership of Joaquín Lavín and the possibilities he has of becoming the next President of Chile,” said the deputy Issa kort, while its pair Juan Antonio Coloma He maintained that “I share that there should not be presidential pre-primary schools within the UDI, but rather our standard-bearer has to be defined in the primaries of Chile Vamos, but, in any case, no one can rule out that both Joaquín Lavín and Evelyn Matthei could compete in that primary ”.

The deputy joined that idea Patricio melero: “In a scenario of seven elections, adding a primary within the UDI does not make much sense. Unless the options are very competitive with each other and it is difficult to discern by a survey or other formula, I prefer that the UDI options all go to the presidential primary in Chile Let’s go ”.

Along the same lines, the deputy Juan Manuel Fuenzalida -Vice President of the UDI- pointed out that “The definition is not optional for the board, here there is an electoral committee and a political commission that have to make the decisions and make a proposal to the general council.” And he added: “We have two candidates, Joaquín Lavín and Evelyn Matthei, with good possibilities. Therefore, the general council will be the one to decide the mechanism. Even, the same alternative that RN used at the time could be reached, which led to two candidates: the party supported Sebastián Piñera and Manuel José Ossandón was also “. In his opinion, in addition, “the first thing is to talk with the two candidates to define a mechanism that allows selecting the best letter from the UDI, because their opinions are fundamental and guarantees must be given to both.”

The senator Ivan Moreira, while, said Van Rysselberghe’s remarks involve “laying a headstone early on Matthei and any new leadership.” and that “The president must give guarantees to everyone without underestimating anyone.” Thus, he stressed that “I would not rule out a primary a priori” and that “Under no circumstances are the primaries a nonsense, given that we had to wait decades for one militant, one vote, in the internal elections of the UDI ”.

Another thing raised the head of the bench of deputies of the party, Maria Jose Hoffmann, aspiring of dissent to Van Rysselberghe for the presidency of the UDI in the internal elections at the end of the year. “It is a mistake to emphasize the mechanism. The relevant thing is that The UDI has two leaderships and must lead the best of them to compete in the primaries of Chile Vamos ”said, while the mayor of Florida, Rodolfo Carter, he warned: “Primary or non-primary is not the issue. More than the how, what matters is the why. No one has said why they want to be President. A third government by walk over and without convictions would be fatal ”.

The former minister also joined the debate Isabel Plá, who argued that “no mechanism should be ruled out to define the party’s presidential letter” and that “although the primaries can generate internal tension, experience shows advantages: they mobilize the bases and the electorate, allow the articulation of programmatic teams and territorial deployment early, and they are a space for participation that is increasingly valued by citizens and by the center-right electorate ”.

According to the former Secretary of State, “It can be a primary with militants or a great convention to which independents join, or a great primary in Chile Vamos can be defined in which the best positioned candidates participate, as was the primary of 2017”.



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