The former president of National Renovation, Mario Overflows, stated that he is evaluating resigning from the community and pointed against the directive, led by the senator Francisco Chahuán (president) and the deputy Diego Schalper (general secretary). The former defense minister affirmed that the party’s leadership suffers from “a brutal sectarianism.”
“A directive that does not hesitate to lie and threaten, trying to antagonize everyone, took the mussels out of the basket. Leaving is an option that seems reasonable to me, “said Desbordes in one of RN’s chat groups. Third.
The ex-parliamentarian delved into his criticism of the RN directive. “The party is going to a course that does not identify me at all. This week we have been the laughingstock of Chilean politics with some interventions from the board. We have received doors slammed from the People’s Party and the DC due to hasty statements from the president of the party, “he mentioned to the aforementioned media.
“I don’t know if we project an image of seriousness, but the most important thing, I think is the tension within RN between those who believe that everything is fine in Chile, that it is not necessary to make major changes, versus those of us who are in favor of reforms in Seriously, due to a social content, it is getting bigger and bigger, “he added.
Regarding the electoral panorama, he maintained that “this announcement that Chahuán made that he should contain the red tsunami, and that he had three wave trains, and it turns out that we lost 400 thousand votes in the parliament, and it seems that nothing had happened. And They just beat us in the second round by beating, thanks to mistakes made not by Kast, but by the sector. “
Desbordes affirmed that he has offered the board “to work together, but unfortunately the logic of the board is one of brutal sectarianism.”
“I don’t know if Chahuán or Schalper generate the credibility that a moment like this requires,” he emphasized.
Regarding the eventual resignation and the situation of the party, he commented that in January “different leaderships will meet with parliamentarians, party leaders, women from our area of indigenous peoples, who have also been ignored in recent times (…) We are going to gather a large group of leaders to see the ways forward. “
“I think this is the time to seek unity in the sector, that is why I am not in favor of breaking a political party,” he added.
Discrepancies with the directive
Senator Chahuán’s list triumphed on June 19 in the internal elections of Renovación Nacional (RN) over that of Desbordes. Already from the campaign periods, splinters were raised between both sides.
“Mario Desbordes ended up destroying Renovación Nacional!”, Said the deputy Thomas Fuentes after the poor results of the right in the elections of councilors, mayors, governors and conventional.
“When one believes that one cannot fall lower, Tomás Fuentes manages to surpass himself. Product of the human misery that you and your master represent ”, Desbordes replied in one of the RN chat rooms, alluding to the closeness of the parliamentarian with the Chancellor Andres Allamand (RN).
Likewise, since the overflow, they denounced a boycott of a discussion that Desbordes was holding with RN militants via Zoom.
According to the account of the events, on Tuesday June 14, in the middle of the interaction, one of the participants – whom they accuse that he answers to the opposition sector to the current helmsman – would have opened the link of the Zoom session to the general public, allowing fifty people outside the conversation to enter the meeting.
“These people started issuing harsh insults against Desbordes and epithets of various caliber against the current party leadership. The aggressiveness of these people reached such a level that they began to post pornographic images and obscene gestures that forced the organizers to leave the link to return to the discussion from another link“, detailed a note from The counter.
Later, already under the mandate of Chahuán in RN, there were other points of conflict. And it is that in September, the former presidential candidate accused the board of taking steps to lower the candidacy of the deputy Jorge Duran for pronouncing in favor of the fourth withdrawal.
In this regard, Chahuán said that “I understand your need to want to appear in public opinion, but the invitation that I want to make you fraternally is to build a party.”
“We are not willing to waste time on artificial polemics. We believe that artificial polemics disconnect us from Chileans, “he commented at the time.
Desbordes, meanwhile, indicated that “this directive, which won with a very narrow margin, has acted with an arrogance never seen before (…) in a very sectarian manner, they have dedicated themselves to installing their own, to punishing everyone who it has not supported them, trying and even managing to remove public officials, dropping candidates, ignoring the political commission, and what is worse, openly transgressing the law on political parties. “
