translated from Spanish: Marta Lagos lowers the profile of the internal defeat of Desbordes in RN and assures that even “it can benefit him”: “The votes that move a party are re few”

On the day after the first television debate of the presidential hopefuls of Chile Vamos, the commandos, parties and experts draw their accounts regarding who was the winner of the first face-to-face between Joaquin Lavin (UDI), Mario Desbordes (RN), Ignacio Briones (Evópoli) and Sebastian Sichel (independent).
And according to the analysis of Mori’s director, Marta Lagos, the winner was the RN’s standard-bearer, despite the fact that he came clearly beaten to the debate after losing in his party’s internal elections to the conservative sector headed this time by Senator Francisco Chahuan.
“Desbordes last night clearly won over Sichel and Briones (…) The one that showed the most leadership of all was Desbordes,” the Director of Latinobarómetro said at tuesday’s political panel at El Mostrador en la Clave.
“Last night it was clear that Mario Desbordes is a character with a very important strength, resilience and temperance, because it was not noticed that he had just lost the elections of his party. Little is understood how a party can ignore a candidate of that level,” Marta Lagos added.
In his opinion, the defeat of Desbordes in the internal RN, and the statements of the new board tending to the freedom of action of its militants in presidential matters “is not going to give any resounding victory to Sichel.” “Let’s be clear, the votes that a party moves are few, very few people would have to vote for a party order or a freedom of action to its members could tip the balance in a primary,” he adds. Moreover, he pointed out that even “they can benefit him, today the parties are bad and moving away from a party is not bad.”
Lagos also commented positively on Lavin’s performance. “It is impressive the blood of horchata that has, no matter what happens, it is like puncturing a glass, because no bullets enter him but nowhere,” he added.
According to the analyst, both Desbordes and Lavin “clearly did much better than Sichel and Briones,” who “lost especially with the discussion of the 65 thousand pesos,” alluding to the explanations they had to give for the criticized Emergency Family Income to help families in pandemic, which at the time they celebrated as ministers.
Meanwhile, Rodrigo Espinoza, an academic at Diego Portales University, described as “very rare” that in a debate between right-wing candidates, “none of them effectively say that they are a right-wing candidate,” as was evident in yesterday’s debate.
As for the expected turnout on July 18, Espinoza said that “we are probably going to see a primary election with a much smaller mobilization of votes.”
For her part, Marta Lagos said that “I believe that few people will vote in this primary,” in addition to the lack of clarity and people wonder “well, do these gentlemen belong or do they not belong to their parties?” “But there is a lot of water left to run under the bridge,” he said.

Original source in Spanish

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