translated from Spanish: Desbordes admits defeat and Chahuán makes himself available for presidential campaign

The RN presidential candidate, Mario Desbordes, acknowledged on Sunday his defeat to Senator Francisco Chahuán in the party’s internal elections held on Saturday at the national level.” I want to congratulate him on the democratic triumph he won yesterday (…) The party was divided, but that was only until yesterday when it was the election, because from now on we are all united, and united behind the presidency of Francisco Chahuán,” said Desbordes, who met with Chahuán at the party headquarters. He also added that “this is the party that has to function as the great prop of Chile Vamos and in that the role of Francisco.” All of us are going to work with him under his leadership (…) to work also to return to the epic of Chile Vamos, to the original epic of three or four years ago that has been lost because of all of us, and I am sure that he will help him recover”, added Desbordes.Meanwhile, Chahuán responded by thanking “the noble gesture of recognizing the triumph of RN (…) Today I have made myself available for his presidential campaign, we are convinced that National Renewal has to be played so that ultimately we have a good performance in the primary of the coalition.” We have also talked about how to form a territorial deployment that represents RN and Mario, I put myself at your disposal so that we have a good result in the next presidential primaries of Chile Vamos, I am convinced that if we are able to recover the street and if we work together, if we are to manage our differences we will finally make the party do well” , the senator said.

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