Who is Marco Enríquez-Ominami, partner of Alberto Fernández who seeks to bring the left to power in Chile

The leader of the Chilean Progressive Party (PRO), Marco Enriquez-Ominami, confirmed this Monday, August 23, his aspiration to be a presidential candidate in the November 21 elections thanks to a video on social networks.

Through the images published on Twitter, also the founder of the Puebla Group assured that “We are at a different time in our history, at a time of hope, of a people who believe and want radical but peaceful change”.

He said that this “change” has “a threat: Sebastián Sichel, and his boss, (the president) Sebastien Piñera, who is the real candidate ”and indicates that “Both seek to discredit, block the Constitutional Convention, our only hope for justice”.

In addition, the leader of the PRO congratulated Senator Yasna Provoste’s triumph in the Constituent Unit (former Concertación) primaries, but said that “This is not enough” to obtain a victory for the center-left in the presidential elections.

In the video, he promised that “we will walk with the Chileans to build this path, for an emergency national government, which protect the economy, face the pandemic, create jobs, guarantee rights and create a development model“.

Enriquez-Ominami closed by calling “the change is now, the change is today “and before that he presents his presidential candidacy, for the fourth time”, because the hope of the people is threatened “.

Who is Marco Enríquez-Ominami and what is his relationship with Alberto Fernández?

Ominami He was born in Santiago on June 12, 1973. Son of Manuela Gumucio Rivas and Miguel Enríquez Espinoza. His father occupied an important place in the Chilean political scene as founder of the Revolutionary Left Movement (ME).

His maternal grandfather, Rafael Agustín Gumucio Vives, He would also be the founder of the National Phalange, first president of Christian Democracy, deputy of the seventh departmental group and senator of the fourth provincial group.

Regarding his studies and professional life, and focusing on his university studies, he entered the University of Chile to study literature and later graduated in philosophy, between 1990 and 1995. In 1996 he continued his studies in France.

This is where an intensive workshop for directors began at the Lycée Femis-Paris. In the following years (1997 – 2005) developed as a professor of film production both nationally and internationally.

He has also played director roles at film production companies such as Rivas y Rivas and La Factoría. Then, in 2005, assumed as director of the ChileMedios Foundation, dedicated to carrying out studies on television audiences.

That same year, he presented his candidacy for the Chamber of Deputies, representing the Socialist Party of Chile, for District No. 10, the fifth interior region. He was elected with the first constituency majority after obtaining 46,590 votes (34.34% of the total).

For the December 2009 elections, he decided not to stand again in the Chamber and, on June 12, 2009, he formalized his resignation from the Socialist Party (PS) in stand as a candidate for the presidency before the electoral service (Servel) September 10.

At the same time, he got the third place in the elections with 1,405,124 votes (20.14%). In 2013, rlaunched his candidacy and obtained 723,542 votes (10.99%) reaching a third place among 9 candidates, without going to the second electoral round.

Finally, in September 2017, he communicated his decision to compete for the third consecutive time for the Presidency of the Republic. In the elections of November 19, 2017. Obtained 376,871 (5.71%), ranking in 6th place among 8 candidates at the Palacio de La Moneda.

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Two years later, more precisely in 2019, He became a founding member of the Puebla Group, a political and academic forum made up of representatives of the Ibero-American political left., founded in the city of Puebla, Mexico.

Among the conscripts of this group is President Alberto Fernández, who established a close bond with Ominami. With him, Fernandez handled some of the trips that took place during his presidential tour.

The two last met in January this year. It was a intimate meeting in which only five guests participated, as a corollary of a meeting that the president held with the main referents of the Chilean opposition space.

JFG / ED