A black Sunday lived Chile Vamos. First, it did not reach 52 seats in the Constitutional Convention, i.e. 1/3. Second, in the election of regional governors they only lead in one region – Los Ríos – and will have to go for the second round with a PS. And thirdly, in the mayors’ elections he lost several emblematic communes.
The defeat was painful for officialism, taking into account that in Santiago Irací Hassler (PC) he managed to defeat RN Felipe Alessandri. With 653 tables counted out of a total of 1,020, corresponding to 64.02%, the situation was taking place: 38.18% vs 35.90%, and the communist leader celebrated past 1 in the morning in Plaza de Armas already as elected mayor, accompanied by her adherents under the cries of “Irací, the other no”.
Earlier, the debacle was seen to come with what happened in Viña del Mar and Maipú. In the commune of the Valparaiso Region, the coalition candidate, Andrea Molina (Ind), won only 21.89% of the vote, far from 38.20% of candidate DR Macarena Ripamonti, who ended the UDI hegemony after 17 years and will share a political line with Valparaiso, as Jorge Sharp achieved re-election.
Meanwhile, in Maipú Cathy Barriga’s (UDI) journey came to an end after Tomás Vodanovic (RD) won 46.84% of the vote, doubling 22.34% of the current mayor.
Officialism added another failure in Uñoa, where DR Emilia Ríos achieved 31.92% of the vote versus 29.28% of RN Guido Benavides, with 83.44% of the tables counted. “We said we were going to win Auñoa and we won Auñoa. After 24 years, we will finally work to return the municipality to the neighbors. Thank you, we will now need the entire community committed to this transformative project,” the future mayor celebrated.
In this way, with the various coalition changes in the municipalities, the chess of mayors was reorganized. Chile Vamos stayed with the usual communes he leads, such as Las Condes with the triumph of Daniela Peñaloza, in Vitacura with the triumph of Camila Merino and Providencia with the re-election of Evelyn Matthei, in addition to maintaining La Florida with Rodolfo Carter and Puente Alto with Germán Codina. He also maintained La Reina, with the re-election of José Manuel Palacios.
With 35,688 tables counted out of a total of 46,087, corresponding to 77.44%, Chile Vamos carried 26.53%, inso as oppositions totaled 43%, divided into: Unit by Apruebo (PS, PPD and radicals), with 13.90%; Chile Worthy and Sovereign (PC and FVRS), with 5.90%; United States for Dignity (DC, Citizens and PRO), with 10.49%; Broad Front, 7.45%; Dignity Now (Humanists and Equality), 3.21%; and Environmentalists and independents, with 2.05%. Meanwhile, extra-distributed independent nominations totaled 28.77%.
While the FA vote is not quantitatively striking, it was effective in the communes reached. And in fact the boque also draws cheerful accounts and was awarded Central Station, with the triumph of Felipe Muñoz, independent by quota in said conglomerate.
For United for Dignity, Claudia Pizarro (DC) maintained La Pintana; Karina Delfino (PS), Fifth Normal; Carlos Cuadrado (PPD), Huechuraba; Maximiliano Ríos (PPD), Lo Prado; and Christopher White (PS), the same with San Bernardo, where he gave another defeat to officerism by leaving former UDI Amparo García out of the race, who was barely fourth.
In Recoleta, Daniel Jadue (PC) remained for a wide margin, despite his dual status as a candidate for mayor and president. “The sectors that seek the real transformations of this country have achieved a tremendous triumph,” said Jadue, one of the great winners of the day.
