translated from Spanish: PPD makes national directive with emphasis on 2020 municipal and electoral alliances

During this Saturday, the National Directive of the PPD will be held, the partisan body of political deliberation that brings together delegates from all over the country, leaders and authorities, where one of the most rele will be the municipal elections of October 2020, where it is intended to raise alliances with the Socialist Party in councillors and agreements via primary or pacts by omission with all the opposition in mayors and regional governors.
This was said after his speech by the president of the PPD, Heraldo Muñoz, who in his speech took stock of the first year of management, highlighting Chile Transparent’s first ranking place on active transparency of political parties; the first Feminist Public Library of a political party; prominent parliamentary presence in both chambers and the collective placing issues on the public agenda, in particular in the Pension Reform.
“We are proud to have been recognized as the most transparent party in Chile Transparent’s index, and that leaves us very happy for the task we have done. But now there are other challenges ahead and in political terms the most significant challenge is that of next year’s municipal and regional governor elections,” explained the helmsman PPD.
The former chancellor stressed that “this National Directive will have the task of defining what alliances we should have, particularly for councillists, and then how to define the most unitary agreements possible on mayors and governors regional.”
“In addition, we will discuss political issues, where the most fundamental thing is the Pension Reform, where we not only want the strengthening of the Solidarity Pillar, but an increase of 5.5% of contributions to cover intergenerational solidarity and also a set of measures for gender equity in retirements,” she said.
Asked about eventual alliances for the Municipal 2020, Heraldo Muñoz indicated that “there are advanced conversations to eventually have an agreement for the list of councillors with the Socialist Party, with whom we share a long history, we are historical partners. And while that agreement is not yet closed, it is well on track.”
“But we will also continue to talk to all political parties, because we must reach some broad agreement at least in regional governors, in an agreement ranging from the Broad Front to DC. And for mayors, I am proposing that in the 10 most populous communes in the country, ruled by Chile Vamos, we agree to run unitary candidates,” the president of the PPD concluded.

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