Latorre: The Concertación can make an effort to end exclusion

SANTIAGO.-  In response to the PC´s decision to support the presidential candidate of the Concertación if they are able to reach a parliamentary agreement with other  left-wing parties, the president of the DC, Deputy Juan Carlos Latorre, has not ruled out the option if it means that they will gain more votes.

“I don’t see any problem with the Concertación parties putting forth the effort to put a definitive end to the exclusion”, Latorre told Radio Cooperativa.

The deputy stated that “the right-wing cannot use the fact that an entire political sector is left out, which accounts for 12% of Chileans, in order to guarantee a technical tie”.

Latorre explained that in order to end the exclusion, he does not believe that reaching a parliamentary pact would be the best option, but explained that if the right does not definitively end the two party system, “then the rest of the parties will have the legitimate right to look for a way to overcome it”.

With regards to the latest CEP poll, which indicates that Sebastián Piñera is the candidate with the highest level of leadership, while Eduardo Frei is designated as the best candidate for the Concertación, Latorre acknowledged that, given such a situation, “the presidential election has still not been clearly resolved”.