Early this morning, before the usual meeting of the official alliance, democratic socialism had a special encounter. For the first time, leaders of the four parties that make up the coalition sat together to talk with Carolina Toháits flag bearer, in the face of its presidential campaign that starts on the 30th of this month.
The meeting was held in the newly released Tohá command, in London 76, in the center of Santiago. So far they arrived Paulina Vodanovic (Socialist party), Leonardo Cubillos (Radical Party) and Juan Carlos Urzúa (Liberal Party), in addition to the Vice President of the Party for Democracy (PPD) Cristóbal Barra.
The location of the command is strategic. It will allow the candidate to be close to the four communities that support her postulation to the currency. All in the Paris-London neighborhood.
As anticipated by the “core” of Tohá’s work, which organized the meeting with the Timoneles, the idea is that these appointments are periodic.
From the parties, meanwhile, they anticipate that they expect these instances to be similar to the political committee that the currency performs every Monday with the heads of the government coalition. And that the one in charge of coordinating this space will be vodanovicwho abandoned his presidential candidacy last week so that his party supports the former interior, and thus unify democratic socialism behind a single application.
In the PS they are convinced that such instances are necessary for Tohá’s candidacy to prosper. This is because in the party they recognize that, with the decline of Vodanovic after having been proclaimed by the central committee, the community was damaged, with leaders who fail to convince themselves that the former minister from the interior represents them.
Without going any further, Vodanovic herself told militancy last week that “I know that the PPD It does not represent us in its entirety, I know. ”
However, he emphasized that “this is not going to be the candidacy of the PPDcolleagues, it will be the candidacy of Democratic socialism (…). We are essential in that project (…). Consequently, By integrating this campaign, we do not integrate as a tail carwe integrate as an essential part of a political project to build. “
In that line, the game has already started spreading material online so that the militancy supports Tohá’s candidacy on social networks.
Anyway, the coordination of meetings is not the only thing that hopes to get the PS. Some of the main leaders of the community advance that It would interest to reach the program programmatic coordination of the campaign. And the name mentioned to fulfill that task is that of the senator for the Maule.
In the intertanto, in the Tohá command they are waiting for the socialists to give them a document with the programmatic bases that they reached for the Vodanovic candidacy. For the Socialists it is essential that these guidelines be considered.
This morning’s meeting was not the only gesture between the senator and the former minister this day. The helmsman remained of the political committee in La Moneda to participate in the meeting between Tohá and the deputies and socialist senators, also in their command.
