While Chile Let’s go has not yet defined a single candidate for the election of governors in the Valparaíso Regionsince they did not register primaries with a view to October, internally the number of tensions between Renovación Nacional and the UDI due to the emergence of its general secretary, María José Hoffmann.
In RN they defend the candidacy of Luis Pardoofficer (r) of the Chilean Army and deputy for the area in the period 2018-2022, and raise their suspicions that Hoffmann seeks to instrumentalize his application to position himself towards an aspiration for the Senate, which next year will renew its five seats.
“Hoffmann wants to use the candidacy to be a senator, she is not interested in the Regional Government of Valparaíso,” accused the deputy Andrés Celisin accordance with The second.
Your pair Andrew Longton emphasized that it is “a government where territorial ties are essential; the Region of Valparaíso cannot be a kind of laboratory for foreign candidates”.
“RN has a candidate and it is Luis Pardo, who has gone through all the internal processes of the party, being ratified by the bases. We hope that in this governorship and in all the regions, with each of the parties having their candidates, we will be able to agree on a single candidate, and this not only in Chile Vamos, but also with other opposition parties, including Republicans,” he said. Andrea Balladaresgeneral secretary of RN.
SURVEYS SHOW THE SAMPLE AS THE MOST COMPETITIVE
Hoffmann, who was a deputy for the area for 12 years (2010-2022), estimated last week that “she is probably the only female gubernatorial candidate in our sector,” and that It also hopes to “be the most competitive”.
Some surveys point in that direction.
According to the survey UDD Citizen Panel of May, the current governor Rodrigo Mundaca (close to the Frente Amplio) leads in voting intention, with 28% of the preferenceswhile Hoffmann (9%) and the ex-UDI Manuel Millones appear as his closest pursuers. Pardo appears fifth, with 5%.
A particularity in this case is that with the total sum of the numbers on the right, including the Republicans (Francesco Venezian, who reaches 8%), the sector would reach 30% and surpass Mundaca.
While, a Criteria survey, commissioned by the union leader herself To evaluate the situation in Valparaíso, he estimated that Mundaca would lead in any first round scenario. In the event of a runoff, the governor would beat Hoffmann by just one point, but if he faced Pardo, he would be 22 points ahead. as collected The Mercurio of Valparaíso.
In gubernatorial elections, a candidate can win in the first round if he or she achieves a majority of more than 40% of the validly cast votes; but if there are more than two applicants and none of them achieves that level of votes, there will be a runoff between the two with the most votes.
