Controversy caused by the victory of the PPD candidate Sammy Ormazabalwho won the primaries in the commune of Paredones, in the O’Higgins region. The problem is that the winner was disqualified from participating, due to a case of corruption, and should not have been on the voting ballot. In this regard, the general secretary of … Read more
Less than a week having passed since President Gabriel Boric’s Public Account, and after the controversy over the announcement about legal abortion, the support of the ruling parties –and the D.C.– showed that they are experiencing greater fragility. The phenomenon has not gone unnoticed. Various parliamentarians raise it with greater or lesser emphasis: for some … Read more
In the midst of the uncertainty that reigns around who will lead the Municipality of Providencia, political forces outline strategies and pacts. The current mayor, Evelyn Matthei (UDI), has not yet communicated her decision on whether she will seek re-election or compete for La Moneda. Everything indicates that she will do the latter and the … Read more
The PPD parliamentarian and former president of the chamber, Raúl Soto, addressed the shocks left by the breakdown of the administrative agreement in the Senate and the eventual consequences on the balances between the political forces in Congress. In Soto’s opinion, this episode “paved the way for losing the table of the Chamber of Deputies, … Read more
A debacle in the PPD; loss of confidence for legislative agreements; a setback for the front of the House; dissent to appoint three Supreme Court justices pending; and a new correlation of forces in Congress that makes it difficult to approve programmatic reforms. These are the main effects that are seen in the coalition of … Read more
