FNX Magokiler Posted December 28, 2023 Posted December 28, 2023 One of the municipal races that is watched with the greatest interest by the ruling party and the opposition is located in the commune of Santiago, where Mayor Irací Hassler – who has had a controversial administration – aspires to achieve re-election, in an intricate scenario. Added to this is that the municipal competition in Santiago is historically considered the mother of all battles. This is because the records since 2008 – when Pablo Zalaquett (UDI) defeated former mayor Jaime Ravinet (ex-DC) – show that the electoral pact that managed to win the seat of the highest communal authority has obtained, the following year, a victory in the presidential elections. Although Hassler has not yet made her re-nomination for Santiago official, the ruling parties assure that she is “the only candidate for the commune” and do not doubt that she will go for a second term. Furthermore, Santiago – one of the 10 communes with the most voters – is the place where re-election has been an impossible mission for his last three predecessors: Zalaquett, Carolina Tohá (PPD) and Felipe Alessandri (UDI). Although both Democratic Socialism and Apruebo Dignidad and the so-called “right” agree that the current mayor has an uphill climb for re-election, in the government coalitions there are different views on Hassler's possibilities of remaining in the municipality. “For the ruling party to maintain Santiago is going to be a strong and complex fight, but we hope to maintain it (…). The right has several candidates, but they may not be able to agree,” says the person in charge of the electoral team and vice president of the PS, Eduardo Bermúdez. Asked about the records of the impact of the municipal elections on the presidential elections, the socialist municipal expert points out that since 2008 it has been “a little true that whoever wins Santiago, wins the presidential election,” but – in his opinion – “until now The result of the commune of Santiago is open and we aspire to maintain that municipality.” The municipal administration of Irací Hassler, in just over two years, has faced a series of controversies that have not completely dissipated. The Sierra Bella factor and the garbage strike in Hassler's re-election The crime situation; municipal permits for street vendors that she gave and had to withdraw; a health summary for tons of garbage in the streets after the strike of municipal officials who accused “mistreatment”; The failed purchase of the former Sierra Bella clinic, where the Public Ministry is investigating an overpricing, with her reluctance to hand over her municipal cell phone to the PDI in a controversial incident within the framework of the investigation, constitute some of the questions that fall on the first mayor. communist of the Municipality of Santiago. https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pais/2023/12/28/la-madre-de-todas-las-batallas-el-escenario-electoral-de-la-alcaldesa-iraci-hassler-en-santiago/
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