More than a month after the last meeting that called the negotiators of Chile Vamos, Yellows for Chile and Democrats Looking ahead to the municipal election in October of this year, the parties led by the deputy Andres Jouannet and the senator Ximena Rinconwhich make up the pact electoral Democratic Centerthey lost patience.
So much so, that last week, in an interview with Thirdthe senator Matias Walkerwho is vice president of Democratsgave a harsh warning: “If there is no agreement, we are fully willing to compete. We are prepared to bring candidates to all the communes of those regions where we have been established.”.
The point is shared by Yellows. Deputy Jouannet told this media this morning that “we have an agreement with Democrats and today we have an agreement with them in at least 90 communes in the country. And we are ready to compete. “We have made a great effort to have candidates.” What’s more, yesterday deputy said to From the editorialof The Third TVwhich is in doubt whether they will support the candidacy of the former minister Mario Desbordes (National Renewal) in Santiago, despite the fact that Democrats already supported it.
The yellows are clear that For them there are three communes that are essential. These are Valdivia, Coquimbo and Copiapo. In the first of them the party card is the former mayor Jorge Vives. In the second, the candidate is the councilor Guido Hernandezwhile in the third who aspires to reach the municipal seat is Luis Nunez.
However, Amarillos emphasize that they have not received any signal or guarantee from the coalition that brings together the UDI, National Renewal and Evopoli that an agreement can be reached that favors them in those municipalities.
Beyond those three communes, in that party they assure that They have around 50 municipalities with a candidate that could eventually compete.
In the case of Democratshis vice president Marcela Labraña He stated that “it is known to everyone that we have candidates who are very, very important to us.” Among them, he mentioned Jorge Zavala (Iquique), Carolina Latorre (Calama), Councilor Camila Avilés (Renca), councilor Patricio Cisternas (Pudahuel), Rodrigo Iturra (San Miguel), former mayoral candidate Alejandra Bustamante (Maipu) and former mayoral candidate Guillermo Benavides (La Pintana).
“We are betting on having a candidate for mayor in Conception and many other communes. I don’t want to forget any of them. It is known to everyone that these are our interests, it is something that we have communicated,” he added. The brave, who has participated in the negotiations with the other opposition parties. In addition, he acknowledged that, at the moment, they have around 98 potential candidates.
In Yellows They assure that since Chile Let’s go They were asked to wait for the coalition to reach an agreement to resume talks with the center parties. However, the objective has become complex. Without going further, National Renewal has shown his deep annoyance with the UDI after they resolved that María José Hoffmann (UDI) would be the candidate for the Governorship of Valparaíso, to the detriment of Luis Pardo (RN).
Although they have not returned to the table that brings them all together for a month, they have maintained contact between the communities. For example, the general secretary of Amarillos, Ricardo Brodskyvisited the headquarters of the UDI last week to try to advance an agreement. There have also been telephone exchanges between the helmsmen.
Following these conversations, in Chile Let’s go they suggest that The most likely scenario is that they will give up around 30 places to both parties. The phone calls have also served to expose the internal knots that the centrist parties have. For example, in Chile Let’s go They recognize that since Democrats They have been warned that Their parliamentarians have made demands on them in certain communeswhich has also ended up making the negotiations more complex.
Along these lines, the representative Joanna Perezof Democrats, maintained that “I am of the idea of standing on our own feet. And if we have a name match, support. For example, we have a candidate for regional governor: Ana Araneda already mayor in Concepción: Andrea de la Barra. Here there is no talk of an alliance with Chile Vamos. Let’s support the best. If Democrats have candidates, we will take them (…). We have leadership in at least 20 of the 33 communes and we will exert a lot of strength.”
