translated from Spanish: Despite the uncertainty of recent weeks, the PPD’s national council proclaims Narváez as its presidential candidate

The 56th National Council of the Party for Democracy (PPD) today proclaimed by acclamation Paula Narváez as its presidential candidate, in a virtual activity where more than fifty leaders and activists of the community participated and in which the former minister spokeswoman of Gobierno.De this way, the standard-bearer is formally a PPD candidate was also present. , thus fulfilling what was agreed in the previous National Council, where it was decided by a large majority to promote a single candidacy between the party and the PS. In the instance, the president of the party, Heraldo Muñoz, said that “we have adopted a decision by acclamation to proclaim Paula Narváez officially as the presidential candidate of the PPD. I would like to express our complacency and enthusiasm, we will work for it at national level and in the regions. We see it as a very important step in uniting democratic socialism.” We believe that this candidacy has a positive externality, which is to unite not only the PS with the PPD, but also has the possibility of summoning other forces, as is already (happening) with The New Deal and the Liberal Party, but also other forces, such as the Radical Party, the PRO and independents who have no political domicile” Explained. In her salute to the militancy, the candidate PPD, PS, PL and New Deal said that “I am here because we are rightly placed in a new historical transit that we were able to reach, first, by the mobilization of the people of Chile, but also from the conditions generated by the hard and systematic work of two political forces that history has mandated to unity , as a necessary condition for the progress of the country.” You will be aware that it is with great joy that I am taking up the flags of the PPD today, convinced that the unity of our forces has no turning back. It is up to us to appeal to innovation and creativity to reach every corner of the country, to activate all the territorial capacity of our organizations, to send this message to all of Chile. I want to invite you to be protagonists of this process, “said Paula Narváez.

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