translated from Spanish: Coloma for starting applications in Chile Vamos: “I would find it a stern mistake to advance the presidential race”

18 months of management has been in Sebastián Piñera in La Moneda and there are already those – from the official itself – who are candidates to occupy the presidential chair and succeed the current Mandatario.
The competition for the presidential band was unleashed a long time ago and the right already has some of its letters to succeed President Piñera. One of them is that of the mayor of Las Condes, Joaquín Lavín, who has increased his popularity in the polls and already adds adherents and detractors. A few days ago, Piñera himself came out at the pass of the candidacies and clarified that it is not the time to talk about his eventual successor. Under that premise, the President referred to Lavín and valued his management by accounting for the friendship between the two, placing it as a “good presidential letter.”
But the situation didn’t stay there. Today, the senator and former president of the UDI, Juan Antonio Coloma, also called on his sector to “not lose focus” and prioritize what he defines as “the seal of government”.
In the face of the Statements of the Representative on Lavín, Coloma told La Tercera that he hopes that President Piñera will always speak well of the people of Chile Vamos. Now, “Hence to deduce, as some have, that there is a kind of flag from the presidential candidacy, it seems to me that there is a very large distance. I believe that it was neither in the spirit of President Piñera nor in the usefulness of Chile Vamos,” he said.
And with regard to the candidacies, among which is also that of Andrés Allamand, Senator UDI believes that for Chile Vamos it is “life and death” not to advance the presidential race because there are two very important things at stake: “The first is that when you are in the gob ierno, obviously, the main task is to govern. And governing is hard. We must impose a seal, establish prioritization, concentrate on solving people’s problems rather than making proposals of a different nature. So it would seem to me a stern strategic error to advance the presidential race, both by action and by omission.
And, secondly, Coloma says this would reveal a disconnect with reality. “Advancing a presidential race is disconnecting from reality. The issues of the political elite should not be confused with citizen issues. This disconnect to me disturbs me, because if anything Chile has contributed Let’s go to the center of the historical perspective is its common sense, its ability to address issues at the right times, to provide solutions,” he said.
Coloma concluded that what is lost in the rush is the focus on what is distinctive, of his label. “This is a government that has to fix that seal more. It is important to understand that we were chosen to strengthen the middle class, generate more growth, and face security differently. That has to be the case. There are other issues, if this does not mean that one is deaf, but you have to concentrate,” he reiterated.

Original source in Spanish