Franco Parisi: Chilean presidential candidate who lives in the US did not set foot in the country and will not vote

The liberal candidate for the presidency of Chile, Franco Parisi, one of the seven candidates who is measured this Sunday in the general elections and who campaigned from Alabama, southern United States, will not vote because he did not change his address.

Presidential candidate of the People’s Party, Parisi -54-year-old- has run his entire campaign on social networks, while the local press has revealed various problems with the Chilean justice system for alleged fraud and not paying alimony for two minor children in Chile.

Chilean electoral law allows voting abroad but Parisi He did not complete the procedure required to register at the country’s consulate. In the electoral registry, it appears registered in a voting table in the commune of La Reina, in Santiago.

Nor did he travel to Chile As he had planned after informing that he was infected with coronavirus and that due to restrictions he would not be in the country this Sunday. On the day he came to second place in New Zealand, behind the leftist deputy Gabriel Boric.

In an interview with the Diario Financiero de Chile He said that he could have been infected during the Halloween celebration in the United States, “because that day is very intense here” or in the procedures to prepare his trip to Chile.

This is Parisi’s second presidential election, after finishing fourth in the 2013 elections.

But this time, he has not set foot in the country and has practically proselytized from Alabama, where he has lived since mid-2020 with his second wife and a son, which has caused mockery and criticism in the country and among the other six presidential rivals.

As a result of his problems with the Justice, it weighs on Parisi a court order that would prevent him from leaving the South American country.

“One more obstacle,” he said Parisi in a video released when he announced that he contracted covid-19.

Polls rank him between the fourth and fifth place in the voters’ preference.

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