translated from Spanish: PS President denies Veto to Rincon and claims boric and Jadue “opted for an exclusion primary”

The president of the Socialist Party (PS), Alvaro Elizalde, referred to the break of the constituent union primary last Wednesday and the fall of the alliance with the Broad Front (FA) and the Communist Party (PC). With regard to the complaint by precandidata Ximena Rincón (DC), that the PPD and the PS had asked her to postpone her candidacy, Elizalde assured that “we have not veted anyone.” The senator delve into the failed idea of primaries with Gabriel Boric (FA) and Daniel Jadue (PC), stating that it was a “superior effort, since “more than two years ago we defined as our alliance policy the broad unity of all progressive forces, from DC to FA, including the PC, and that has been the logic with which we have operated all this time.” Elizalde joined the position of his standard-bearer, Paula Narváez, who said that the FA and the PC “do not give guarantees of governance for Chile” and that for an alliance they vetated the participation of the Liberal Party (PL) and the Party for Democracy (PPD).” Our choice is different. They opted for an exclusion primary, a primary where there are only male candidates, no women participate. We have a different choice,” he said. In an interview with Mesa Central (Channel 13), the PS leader stated that he does not plan to resign from his position, because “I have a responsibility in current part-time driving. This is because “when it was decided to extend the mandate of the central committee, it was so that the internal election process would not distract from the effort we have at this historic moment.”

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