The Right-Wing Dispute over Popular Vote

Last Wednesday morning, Chile's flagwoman Vamos (UDI, RN and Evopoli), Evelyn Matthei, arrived to the commune of Maipú to present a battery of proposals to control the use of medical licenses.This, only two days after a Comptroller's report detected irregularities in more than 25,000 public officials' licenses.The choice of the commune was not random. Along with Puente Alto, Maipú is one of the popular municipalities in the Metropolitan Region i…

On this occasion, the mayor of Ñuñoa, Sebastián Sichel, asked for the separation of 126 officials from the commune, who were mentioned in the report issued by the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic. According to that report, these workers, belonging to the Corporation for Social Development of Ñuñoa, are among the public officials who made trips abroad between 2023 and 2024 while on medical leave. The events would have occurred du…

Through his X account, the communal chief maintained that these workers were “accredited” by Comptroller.