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At the time of beginning the primaries among the parties of the Chilean left, Carolina Tohá, who ended up being the candidate of the traditional parties of the former presidents Allende and Lagos, raised an entry barrier when she warned that Daniel Jadue, former presidential candidate of the Communist Party and ally of the Maduro regime in Venezuela, could not compete in his sector because the general bases of the parties prevented alliances wit…
Has it not come to your attention that as elections approach José A. Kast and Jeannette Jara seek to disguise hard identities to present themselves as moderate and kind? Kast’s hosts file their repeated attacks on the “cowardly right” and sneak away from touching on issues that stood out in the second and failed constituent process; while Jara does not speak of what she will do as President but of her family, of Conchalí, and her party is studyi…
The presidential candidate of the ruling party, Jeannette Jara, ruled out this Sunday suspending her militancy in the Communist Party (PC), in the midst of speculations that, from her own sector, pointed in that direction. “No, that issue is not on the table, I have said it once and a thousand times,” declared the former Labour Minister, after arriving at the commemoration of the 113th anniversary of the PC, at the Caupolicán Theatre. It should …
The candidate clarified the situation at least for now and aimed to build a "political and social majority" to confront "the far right."
Ernesto Ottone (Valparaíso, 76), sociologist, essayist, Ph.D. in Political Science and former head of advisors to former socialist president Ricardo Lagos (2000-2006), has looked with special attention at the results of the primary elections of Chilean officialism on June 29th. Jeannette Jara, of the Communist Party (PC) - of which Ottone was the main international leader of the Communist Youths-, became the candidate of the left to compete in f…
Even if this militancy is suspended, frozen or dissimulated, a militancy is not erased by a tactical campaign gesture. Less so when that militancy began at age 14, it was sustained for almost forty years, and has been a central part of a political trajectory marked by that ideological coherence. Jeannette Jara is not a neutral figure. She is not an outsider or a technique without a political past. She is an active militant of the Communist Party…
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