translated from Spanish: Constituent Unit will hold in person and on August 21 its consultation to define presidential candidacy

Finally, during the afternoon of this Sunday, the helmsmen of the parties belonging to the Constituent Unity bloc agreed to hold a presidential consultation to replace a primary, to which they did not accede legally because they exceeded the period of time required to hold one, just 4 months before the presidential election. After the meeting of this day they agreed that the instance will take place on Saturday, August 21, with a format of face-to-face citizen consultation, discarding the digital option, in which it will be defined who will be him or the representative of the block. After two days of meetings, all the discrepancies were settled, and in this regard it should be remembered that on Friday it had already been decided that the consultation would take place. In this sense, Heraldo Munoz, president of the PPD, said according to the Emol media that “The date of registration of presidential candidates and the draw of those people on the ballot will be this Thursday during the course of the particular day.” He added that “we are going to hold this citizen primary or this citizen consultation with the greatest possible participation and under the principles of unity of the Constituent Unity, plus the Liberal Party and New Deal, and participation. Those two criteria are absolutely fundamental.” On August 21, all the members of the parties that make up the coalition will finally be able to vote, in addition to the independents who are not affiliated to any store, and the candidacies already confirmed would be by the DC, Yasna Provoste, the standard-bearer of the PS, PPD, PL and New Deal, Paula Narváez, and the helmsman of the PR , Carlos Maldonado. For its part, the PRO aspires to be represented by Marco Enriquez-Ominami, who is prevented from participating due to judicial problems, although there is an ongoing appeal for protection against servel to lift these restrictions, although, in case it does not reach, Senator Alejandro Guillier could compete.

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