Chilean presidential candidate residing in the United States did not arrive in the country nor will he 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, you will not vote because you did not change your address.

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

Chilean electoral law allows voting abroad, but Parisi 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 planned after reporting 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 left-wing MP 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 around, he hasn’t set foot in the country and has virtually proselytized from Alabama, whereand 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, a judicial order weighs on Parisi that would prevent him from leaving the South American country.

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