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After the intense negotiations last Wednesday, finally Four pacts were registered with the Electoral Service, both from the opposition and the ruling party, to hold primaries for mayors and regional governors on November 29, when the parties will submit to a popular vote the election of their final candidates for the April 2021 elections.
And amid the reactions after what happened this week, several names have already appeared that will compete to be the letter of their sector to lead the Metropolitan region.
In the “Constituent Unit” (PS, PPD, PR, DC, PRO and Ciudadanos) have already defined three candidates: the former mayor Claudio Orrego, for the Christian Democrats, the former Minister of Health Álvaro Erazo, by the Socialist Party, and the also former head of the Minsal Helia Molina, by the PPD.
“I was the first mayor of socialist Santiago to reach the Intendancy in democracy, and I hope to be the first socialist governor, in a space of fraternity, dialogue, discussion“said Erazo.
In turn, Molina said that “it hurts him that the primary is not unitary among all progressive and center-left forces, I would have liked to be with the others”, referring to the frustrated negotiations with the Broad Front.
Anyway, “I have no doubt that whoever wins this primary (of their pact), and I hope to be me, I will immediately put myself at the service of whoever the candidate is“, he guaranteed.
For his part, Wide Front He registered his pact alone for primaries, in which the Democratic Revolution (RD), Commons, Social Convergence, the Liberal Party (PL) and independents will participate.
On the primary ballot in November for the Metropolitan Region will be Sebastian Depolo, former RD helmsman and head of the presidential campaign of Beatriz Sánchez in 2017; Karina Oliva, by Comunes, and María José Fulfilled, by PL.
DESPITE DISADVANTAGES, POINT TO AGREEMENT IN CASE OF SECOND RETURN
Despite the harsh disagreements that have occurred between the Constituent Unit and the Broad Front, voices from both blocs are betting on reaching an agreement to support each other in a possible second round, which must be carried out in the event that no candidate achieves more than 40 percent. of the votes in the election of governors next April.
[Radio en vivo] #TheFirstCafé Sebastián Depolo (RD): The lack of agreement for primaries is a failure of all opposition leaders https://t.co/RT1Dzzdo3r #CooperativeInHome
– Cooperativa (@Cooperativa) October 2, 2020
Depolo, in The First Cooperative Coffee, stated: “I hope that we all do a campaign of ideas, of debate, because at the end of the day this election has a second round, therefore, what I I would hope is to produce the conditions for debate both in the primary and in the first round so that in the second round the opposition strongly supports the candidate who passes the final ballot“.
“As we have a programmatic debate, of a good level, without disqualifications, there should be a convergence in the second round”, Orrego pointed out along the same lines.
THE CHILEAN COMPETITION LET’S GO FOR VITACURA
On the right, after lengthy negotiations, the parties of Chile Come on They did agree to formalize their electoral pact for the elections of mayors and regional governors, and they managed to register it in the Servel just before the deadline.
The main point of contention was the decision, in the first instance, not to hold municipal primaries in Vitacura, something that provoked the rejection of Evópoli; and all after the forced retirement of the historic Raúl Torrealba, who will not be able to report due to the law that limits reelection.
But they finally agreed to carry them out, and for them National renewal reported the intentions of two candidates from his party: Carlos Cruz-Coke and Max del Real, and according to the first one, the final letter of the official store will be defined by a survey this weekend.
“I get off as long as the gentlemen’s agreement is fulfilled, that they present us the survey, let’s see the numbers and if we see that there is one that scores more, the other has to get off. I gave my word, and when I do the I comply, “said Cruz-Coke.
However, Del Real argued that “I have won all those instances; at the time it was also evaluated to count against the polls tool, and that was also done and I was ranked first in the game, and that is what to me backs me up. “
The UDI, meanwhile, will compete in the primaries with Pablo Zalaquett: “My experience shows me that all candidates are extremely competitive, that there is no race won, and even more so in voluntary voting the polls do not say anything; the relevant thing is that the people who trust one, who believe that one is the best option for mayor for Vitacura, go and vote, “he said.
“Don’t trust each other,” he also urged, recalling when he lost re-election for mayor of Santiago in 2012, against the socialist Carolina Tohá.
Evópoli will seek to win the candidacy for Chile Vamos para Vitacura with the name of Camila Merino, former Minister of Labor (2010-2011) in the first Government of Sebastián Piñera.
“I am entering now with full force,” said the letter from Evópoli, “I have to make myself known, but I have a great experience and I hope that the neighbors of Vitacura know it well “.
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