The mayor of Tirúa, Adolfo Millabur, confirmed this afternoon to El Mostrador that he was elected by the Lafquenche community to go as a candidate for the constitutional convention. “The Lafquenche community solved that I had to go from candidate to constituent,” he said.
About 190 people took part in the meeting, which began at 10:00 a.m.
Millabur will make his position available in the next few hours, after which the City Council must elect an authority for the mayor’s office.
“The first immediate task of us as a lafquenche is (…) by January 11 we have to get the signatures of the communities that the law establishes. (They are) 3 communities, but in the middle of the pandemic, the community has to be gathered and half plus one must agree that I am a candidate, and it is not easy (…) it is also forbidden to meet,” he told this medium.
“There are three minimum communities, or instead 120 signatures. We have two paths, first get the three communities which is a possible task, but we’re also going to get signatures from community presidents,” he added.
“In parallel, I have to fix everything in the municipality from an administrative point of view, and make available to the council to el choose the new mayor.”
Millabur also said that “I was left empowered and authorized so that we can make alliances with other territories. It could be with Santiago, where there is a female leader who wants to accompany me and be a duo, so there is also the challenge and the agreement to seek a duo to offer a work alliance.”
“In Mapuche culture there is no vote, there is a lot of debate, all the territories speak, the main lonkos and leaders of the communities and they are consensual, it is by afafan (cry of Mapuche agreement).”
