FNX Magokiler Posted January 3, 2024 Posted January 3, 2024 The former president of Renovación Nacional, Mario Desbordes, advised Chile Vamos to remain as a dialogue right and not get close to the Republican Party. In conversation with Al Pan Pan with Mirna Schindler, Desbordes began by making an example of what happened in Spain, with the Popular Party (right-wing) and the emergence of Vox (far-right). “I am going to repeat to you a phrase that Pablo Casado told me when he was president of the Popular Party (PP) and I was president of Renovación Nacional (RN). He told me that they allied themselves with Vox, they allied themselves as an alliance. They joined with them and two million votes came in from the right and ten went out from the center. We lost ten million votes for the center. When the PP said that that is their identity, that is them. From a slightly harder right to the center, the most moderate, are the Popular Party. We have our identity, our project. Vox is a different, parallel project. He is not my enemy, we will agree with them electorally, but we are not going to mix,” he exemplified. Along these lines, Desbordes added that “José Antonio Kast is not my adversary, he is not my enemy, I do not have any personal problem with him, but he is not part of Chile Come on, he is going to compete with us. And if we are so naive to believe that with whom he wants to compete with us and wants to replace us, tomorrow we can sit at the same table and make a Tea Club table, it cannot be done, it cannot be done.” “Now, when the center-left, the social democracy, tells me that I am with the Republicans, I say forgive me, but you are back – returning to the Spanish example – sitting in power. You are at the same table with power. Don't come to me and tell me that the center-right joins with the hard right, with the extreme right, because the center-left is together with the ultra-left, with the hard left," he insisted. “And in that scenario, of course, it forces us to these pacts. There are good people in the Republicans, very valuable people. But there are others, unfortunately, flat earthers, climate change deniers, etc. It is an issue that José Antonio Kast has to resolve. I believe that a complex period is coming for him, where he is going to have to organize his ranks, because everything came in when he established it, and of course, here comes a difficult period as well,” he said. For Desbordes, the biggest risk of all this is that now another group has appeared among Republicans “on the right”, led by Senator Rojo Edwards, “who, by the way, was elected senator because he clung to the figure of José Antonio Kast. The people of the Metropolitan Region did not know him, he was elected senator because he was the senator from Kast.” “Today, he ignores José Antonio, the party leaves, he puts together his group, and there are about five or six emulators of Javier Milei towards the Republican right, who are going to pull Republicans further to the right, probably. And Republicans are going to be tempted to compete with them so as not to lose that lot on the right,” he added. https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pais/2024/01/02/desbordes-critica-cercania-de-chile-vamos-con-republicanos-no-podemos-hacer-una-mesita-te-club/
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