translated from Spanish: Diego Ancalao: “We have not been able to locate the people in charge of collecting the signatures”

The former presidential candidate of the People’s List, Diego Ancalao, referred to the controversy that arose after the Servel invalidated his candidacy for having more than 23,000 sponsorships legalized by a deceased notary. A few days after his candidacy was lowered, the former candidate said that “the performance of the president of the Servel council (Andrés Tagle) was not very wordy because he should have notified the candidates first, because after that the law says that one has five days to talk about it.” Regarding those responsible after the collection of signatures for his candidacy, he says that “the people in charge of collecting signatures were either actors of very good faith and believed in a notary that did not exist, or there was a group of infiltrated people who obeyed this type of work,” he said in Mesa Central (Channel 13). In this sense, he explained that “there are people infiltrated (in the team). This is all very rare. The people who did this work all they achieve is not only to harm my candidacy, but what we have seen behind this is to attack the independents, the People’s List and also the Constituent Convention.” In the same vein, he assured that “in no minute have I said that there is a complaint against the president of Servel,” he said, but that the complaint would go against the people responsible for gathering the sponsorships. Despite the above, the former candidate commented “we have not been able to locate the people in charge of collecting the signatures.”

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