translated from Spanish: Candidates for Governor join in call to vote for a feminist woman for the Metropolitan region

The three women who aspire to arrive in the Metropolitan Regional Governorate, Karina Oliva (Common), Helia Molina (PPD) and María José Cumplido (Liberal Party) had breakfast this morning in a place in the commune of Providencia, where they took advantage of calling on citizenship to participate actively in the primary on November 26, stressing that there are all the conditions for a woman to lead the Metropolitan Region. In addition, they agreed to work together to achieve that.” It is essential that the Metropolitan Region has a Governorate headed by a feminist woman. Globally, the best rulers facing the pandemic have been women, so we have no doubt that any of us could do a very good management, thinking about the challenges we have, in democratization, in bringing institutions closer to citizenship and achieving greater distribution in the region,” Karina Oliva said after the meeting. The Commons candidate reported that, to date, out of a total of 81 Intendents the Metropolitan Region has had, only four have been women. He noted that “the male leadership of Chilean politics must stop being afraid of women to govern,” adding that “generally the world, and especially in Latin America, believe that it is men who can govern alone, and it has been shown that women have all conditions, even the best democratizing capacity to move forward.” For her part, Helia Molina assured that “I would very much like a woman to be the Governor of the Metropolitan Region. I’d like to be me, of course. It is up to us that there is also fairness in politics and I believe that women have competences that make us very fit for a position of Governor, which is an executive position, where we have to go to the territory and take care of the problems of the people.” We invite you to vote for a woman, because I believe that a woman as Governor is going to be a tremendous difference in how to work, articulate, empathize and be close to people. I think that’s critical,” the PPD candidate added. Meanwhile, María José Cumplido noted that “I want there to be many more women in politics, in all kinds of positions. Having achieved parity in the Constitution is a civilizing brand that has to force us to have parity everywhere, from the smallest teams in the state to the large directories of companies. In that sense, I want a woman to hold the position of Governor of the MRI, and I want it because women’s political representation is necessary because it is fair and because we deserve it.”

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