translated from Spanish: Candidates for the governorship of the RM Claudio Orrego and Karina Oliva launch their campaigns for the second round

Accompanied by the presidents of A aprueba Dignidad, Gabriel Boric (Social Convergence) and Daniel Jadue (PC), the candidate for governor of the Metropolitan Region, Karina Oliva, left early this Sunday to do physical activity in the sports time slot, in the Forest Park, and to start her campaign for the second round on June 13.
“Our program is not a program of administration of inequalities or poverty, it is a program of transformation, of convocation, democratic, of social justice, and there we have a great difference, for something we are not an alternative neither for Joaquín Lavín, nor for Rodolfo Carter, nor for Mario Desbordes, because we are a project of transformation” Oliva said at a press point in Yungay Square, where the elected mayors of A aprueba Dignidad also arrived.
Oliva maintained that in his project “where the citizenry is the protagonist, we are not going to be the protagonists, it is going to be the people.” And he said that “we want the citizens to participate, that we do not trust ourselves, that it is important to go out and win the election.”
Meanwhile Claudio Orrego, candidate for metropolitan governor by Constituent Unity, participated in several activities to start the period of electoral propaganda.
The candidate pointed out that “here is at stake a vision of city and region, ours the most unequal in Chile and after the pandemic it will be worse, with greater injustice and we have to lift it.”
Adding that “we are not going to raise it alone, here we have to end sectarianism, we have to work with everyone, summon them, the mayors of all political colors, here we must also summon the university world, social organizations, the academy so that together we raise the region.”
“The problems are profound and difficult and serious: drug trafficking, transportation problems, housing problems, environmental problems,” he concluded.
Orrego visited the commune of San Bernardo, from where he requested the extension of the Santiago Metro line to that sector and, in addition, participated in a common pot in La Pintana.
It should be noted that Orrego won 25.52% of the vote in the elections of May 15 and 16, while his opponent from the Frente Amplio, Karina Oliva, reached 23.37%. In 13 of the country’s 16 regions, there will be a runoff to elect governors, as none of the candidates won more than 40%.

Original source in Spanish