The air continues to be cut with a knife in National Renovation, and its former president and former presidential candidate, Mario Desbordes, once again the center of controversy. The former minister, an emblem of the so-called social right, who yesterday threw down the tablecloth threatening to resign from the party, today deepened his criticism of the board of directors, pointing out that they have made the party “a bad copy of Republicans or the tough UDI.”
In Cooperative Radio, the ex-monel again pointed to the leadership of Senator Francisco Chahuán (President) and Deputy Diego Schalper (Secretary General), whom he accused of being influenced by the Andrés Allamand-Marcela Cubillos duo.
“The Allamand, the Cubillos, have a lot of influence from behind, people who are arguing that the new Constitution must be rejected without knowing it. I do not want to be in a party – if it follows that dynamic – that is closed to agreements, to dialogue, “he said.
In this context, he exemplified what happened in the second round. Although he maintained his support for what José Antonio Kast did to represent the right in the ballot, Desbordes maintained that “the point that cannot happen is that we do not have the minimum debate; why don’t we go further. Because Chahuán, Schalper, Cubillos and company took RN back to what happened 15 years ago, which was opposed to all changes, all reforms ”.
In this context, he indicated that “I don’t feel comfortable in a game that is in that position; I want reforms, I want changes, I want people to feel that politicians are useful for something ”.
Fuentes and Unicahuin
When personalizing his criticism in the internal RN, Desbordes mentioned two other coreligionists: the deputy Tomás Fuentes and the vice president of native peoples Claudia Unicahuin.
Regarding the first, Desbordes declared that “he is a dark, small character, who is an employee of Andrés Allamand and Marcela Cubillos, who are brutal detractors of mine.” “Fuentes is so dirty, so low, that he is capable of writing that to make people understand that I have not paid money,” he said about the questions that the parliamentarian launched against him for the campaign contributions for the primary.
As for the vice president of native peoples Claudia Unicahuin, Desbordes lashed out at her, noting that “she insults us, when she says ‘the right does not have to modernize, it only has to have the balls that those of the Approve lost’. I am, I was approved and I continue to be: hopefully I can approve a new Constitution “
“But Chahuán (in the Zero Tolerance program) highlights this woman as one of the great leaders of the party. When the president (highlights) a person who insults all of us who were for the approval, in that way, it shows that there is no intention to dialogue, “he said.
Open to dialogue
In this context, Desbordes bet on a party open to dialogue with the next government. “There are parliamentarians who have already announced to the incoming government that they are not going to approve a tax reform. I don’t find that logical, I don’t find it reasonable, “he lamented.
“The minimum is that if the President was recently elected, he has significant citizen support, many of the projects that he has proposed were raised in this second round as essential … At least let’s talk with the President, let’s see what he needs to finance these projects (…) President Boric, the deputies and senators with whom I speak are willing to talk with you and if you have good proposals, we will approve them, “he said.
TS warning
And to this “guerrilla” climate that exists in RN, a new fact is added that further complicates the permanence of Desbordes in the store: according to reports The secondThis is the “reprimand” of the Supreme Court of the community against him for the support given in the municipal pasts to a former RN candidate who ran outside in Colina (Gonzalo Torres) instead of the UDI candidate, Isabel Valenzuela.
“I have not been notified, I am being notified by the press. I am amazed by the creativity of the TS ”, he said.
According to Desbordes, the disciplinary body is controlled by its detractors. “At the time I asked for the disqualification of (Víctor Manuel) Avilés (TS minister), because he belongs to the Carlos Larraín law firm and is close to Diego Schalper, so he has no objectivity. Especially because there is an audio where Tomás Fuentes says that he has control of the Supreme Court, alluding to Avilés, ”Desbordes told The second.
