The former Chilean Concertation elects its presidential candidate

Chile is once again called to the polls. This Saturday, voters can elect the representative of the building block who will participate in the first presidential round of this year.

The Constituent Unit block is an extension of the former Chilean Concertation who ruled the country during the transition to democracy since the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in the late 1980s. Today, this pact is made up of Christian Democracy (DC), Party for Democracy (PPD), Radical Party (PR), Socialist Party (PS), plus the Liberal Party (PL) and the New Deal movement.

During the citizen consultation this Saturday they compete former minister and current DC senator Yasna Provoste, former PS minister Paula Narváez, and former undersecretary and former PR minister Carlos Maldonado.

Voting this Saturday will begin at 9 a.m. today with the installation of tables which will operate until 6 p.m.

The peculiarity of this election is that it takes place without the organization of the Chilean Electoral Service (Servel), which organized last month’s primaries in which the Constituent Unit did not participate.. It is therefore the parties themselves which must financially support the process and set up voting representatives and localities, which in some places will be one.

This is why all DC, PS, PPD, PR and PL activists will be able to vote from November 2020, and all those who, on that same date, had no political affiliation and were already 18 years old.

In order for a voter to know where to vote, it is necessary to know the electoral district to which the voter belongs.. This can be found from the Servel page by entering your Unique Tax Roll (RUT). Once this vote has been obtained, you must enter the site www.consultaciudadana2021.cl and enter the region and common to know the information on the polling station to use.

Who will compete

Carlos maldonado

Carlos Maldonado is a Chilean lawyer and politician who has led public relations since 2018. His childhood developed in the city of Valparaíso. Her father was a union leader who retired as an employee of the National Railway Company (EFE).

Maldonado studied to be a lawyer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Valparaíso and at the age of 20 he decided to join the PR, where he became President of the Radical Youth of the Region of Valparaíso.

In 1989, he was contacted by the elected senator Carlos González Márquez who offered him to take the head of his cabinet.. In 1994, he moved to Santiago where, with other lawyers, he moved to the center of the capital, to later join the new Social Democratic Radical Party (PRSD).

In 2006, Maldonado signed as Deputy Secretary General of the Government in the first term of President Michelle Bachelet, thus being the first radical to hold a post in La Moneda.

Yasna Provost

Yasna Provoste Campillay is President of the Chilean Senate and was born in the city of Vallenar, in northern Chile, December 16, 1969. He belongs to the Diaguita ethnic group and has been a member of the DC party since the age of 14.

Her political career began as president of the Alumni Center both in his high school and in college. By assuming the former president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Yasna has been appointed regional director of the National Women’s Service, in the Atacama region, between 1996 and 1997.

In early October 2004, Yasna became Minister of Planning and Cooperation until 2006., when she was appointed Minister of Education by former President Michelle Bachelet, a position she left by decision of the Senate she heads today, after the approval of a constitutional charge against him.

Today, Yasna is one of the most respected opposition voices in the Piñera government. of Chilean politics. Polls assure that she is one of the most prominent and highest preference women to reach La Moneda.

Paula Narvaez

Paula Narváez Ojeda is a psychologist by profession, mother of twins and “feminist by conviction”. She was one of Michelle Bachelet’s closest women during her second term.

His studies took place at the Inmaculada Concepción College in this city, located in southern Chile. She graduated as a psychologist in 1996 from Andrés Bello University (UNAB) and holds a master’s degree in economics and regional management from the University of Austral.

She entered politics when she became a member of the National Women’s Service (Sernam) in the Los Lagos area., in southern Chile. She was also regional ministerial secretary (Seremi) of Labor. During Bachelet’s first government She was developed as a regional program manager.

In 2010 she traveled to India to study English and in 2011 she moved to the United States to intern at UN Women. where she was program advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2014, Bachelet appointed her Chief of Staff, while in 2016, she was Minister Secretary General of the Government (Segegob).

In May 2018, he was criticized by the Chilean Controller because of the hiring costs and possible political use of the Segegob printing house. for causes such as the “Here the People” movement linked to Plus AFP, and “I vote to throw”, against corruption.

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