translated from Spanish: Allamand plays the “ghost” card of the UP: “What will happen in 2020 and 2021 has the same gravity as we live in the ’72 s and ’73”

The senator of National Renewal, Andrés Allamand, justified his flip as to his vote for the constituent process, and assured in an interview with El Mercurio that this time “our stance is no longer back.”
The former minister, who was on the Apuebo in November, led the group of 8 of the 9 senators of his party who announced their vote of rejection of the new Constitution in the April plebiscite, under the argument of fear and lack of security, noting that there are the social peace conditions necessary for this process. “I haven’t had any ideological change, I still think That Congress should be a place of agreement (…) that we need to make substantive changes to the constitutional issue,” he said. In this Sunday’s interview, Allamand insists on this point and compared the current country situation with which he lived in Popular Unity before the military civic coup.
“What will happen in 2020 and 2021 is at least the same gravity as what we experienced in the years 72 and 73, and to a lesser extent in 1988 and 1989 (…) The country is intended for its fate in these two years and one has an obligation to act on its convictions,” the PARLIAMENT said.
Likewise, the senator called on Chile We are going to “raise strongly our idea and that the center-right does not go into the face of the radical left”.
Close competition
Allamand’s bet is that the result in the plebiscite is narrow, considering that 21 of his party’s 36 MPs are also rejected.
“Some thought the plebiscite was running, some even anticipating that the result was going to be 80/20. Now that we enter the court with force, the dispute begins: of course they are complicated that we build a positive rejection option (…) It is true that there are one million 200 thousand people who spoke in that famous march, but many more have not expressed themselves publicly, so we have to represent that citizen majority (…) We’re going to be surprised with the campaign content we’re going to roll out since late January, it’s going to be the opposite of a campaign of terror,” he said.
Regarding the situation inside RN, he noted that there is a “clear majority” in the party, but avoided controversy with Mario Desbordes, by stating that “the party president was right when from the day after the agreement he established that there would be freedom of action. Beyond Yes and No, after April we will all have the same institutional approach.”
Lavín’s “Voltereta”
As for the position of other relevant actors in his sector such as the mayor of the Counts, Joaquín Lavín (UDI), who are by the Apruebo, Allamand ventured to predict a green flip of the building.
“He legitimately aspires to be the presidential candidate of Chile Vamos. In the end he’s going to be with the rejection,” he said.

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