translated from Spanish: Paula Narváez called the “wider opposition unit” and insisted on a legal primary

Socialist Party (PS) presidential candidate Paula Narváez reiterated the call for “the widest unity of the opposition to face the presidential career”, and insisted on a legal primary with all political forces that agree.
“I reiterate the importance we work to achieve the broader unity of the opposition to the presidential race; persisting in the call for a legal primary of all the political opposition forces that agree, which must also include substantive programmatic agreements, governance agreement and commitment to parliamentary agreement. For this task, thinking of the Chilean people, I am available #8221;, Narváez argued in a letter.
The presidential contender stressed that the PS is the main opposition party at the constitutional convention with 15 representatives. “Undoubtedly this is the fruit of the base work of socialist militancy and its leadership, which with dedication and creativity was able to reach with our message to different corners of the country, and has enabled us today to be a leading force in the drafting of a new constitution in a democratic, participatory, institutional, equal and inclusive way, as never before in history was possible.”.
“This fact must certainly be understood as a victory for Chilean socialism. Not only because of the representation of our party, but also because of the important presence of political forces constituting the broad identity of democratic socialism, a idea of which our party is today the first representative, but not the only one. Today, when society has mandated the drafting of a constitution on the basis of ideas and proposals over acronyms and slogans, we are the first responsible for building unity of purpose with all those who interpret the reality of that socialism, and recognize democracy as the only valid instrument of social transformation, because it is clear that democratic socialism is the majority political expression of the constitutional convention”, the misiva says.
In this sense, Narváez considered that “we must be able to constitute a space for dialogue and understanding with all those forces that understand diversity as a heritage, but the need to build a single great proposal of society for the coming decades as an inescapable mandate of the people of Chile. We are the
house on the left, those called to sit at a single large table, for citizenship, for all who have the genuine will to build a constitution according to the 21st century, just as we did when we articulated the great political projects of the twentieth century”.

Original source in Spanish