Closing campaign speech of Marco Enríquez Ominami,



Good night, San Bernardo. Goodnight Paine, Buin goodnight, goodnight Calera de Tango. Good night Marisela. The great applause ask the hostess, future deputy. Big applause for our broken companion, big, big applause.

Good night classmates route accompany me for so many years, building the first movement of the bicentennial. The most convinced, the most transparent, the most courageous, progressive. Thanks to you all for having founded the movement. Thank you, good night also the Liberal Party, party of the alliance, who have come to progressivism, the alliance, the pact we have built together with humility.

Good night to independent, independents who have made this pact also is full of energy. Thanks also to the leaders of social movements, as Rolando Jimenez and Claudio Vilega, who have crossed a river. Thanks to the computer program, for joining, for joining, by accompany and teach. I can not name because they are fifty program managers.

Thanks also to artists, actors, theater directors, musicians, painters that evening cast present. Thanks also to my parents, Carlo and Emanuela. My mother is here, my aunt, my family. Fernanda, and Emanuela, and Karen, thanks for joining me for this challenging transition.

This has been a path that began today. This way did not begin yesterday. It started with Jose Miguel Carrera, who was fighting for a fairer Chile. It began with Francisco Bilbao, who defended public education. It started with many senior leaders, with Andrew, who defended the secular state. He also began to Salvador Allende, who fought for a more just country. And this road also began with Miguel Enriquez, who also gave his life for a more prosperous country. He also began with Carlos Ominami many comrades who regained democracy in difficult years. And with 20% in 2009 were given.

Thank you, because I've built a simple way of which we are heirs. Also thanks to the mayors and councilors who are with us and who have won elections. Thanks tonight also candidates for regional councilors, they will do their most prosperous regions and provinces and more transparent. Thanks also to the candidates for senators and deputies candidates and candidates for deputies. Thank you all for being tempted to compete.

We have won. We have won a part of the fight. In 2009 our ideas were minority. Today our ideas are majority. We won because we have a list of candidates who are not here by calculation. Neither Roland nor Marisela, none of those here, and Luis, and Claudio are here for quotas. All of you here competing with other candidates, Beatriz, are here out of conviction. No one is here at calculus. Any. Here is the list of conviction. Unlike other lists, here nobody will reelection. Everyone will fight to conquer a new Chile ultimate sacrifice.

Also we won because, a few months ago, they wanted to propose that the discussion was whether we were new or not. Like a shampoo, the presidency. We won because the discussion today is not the novel, is a public and free education. That's today's discussion. We won because they tried to tell us that politics was disgusting, they tried to tell us to talk politics at the table, to the house of you, it was rude. What is rude is talking about the polls. Which is rude is a candidate because surveys asked. What is well educated is to defend the policy. The political impact on their pensions. The policy requires you to pay for college the most expensive in the world, and none of the best in the world, no. They pay for expensive education.

In fifteen countries worldwide, in fifteen countries, college is free. In Canada, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, France, Spain, Argentina and Uruguay, free college. Not here. We want to free universities, as a right to all these children who are here. They can and should get free.

They say that our ideas have been copied. Hopefully. And I think about these children who are here, the kids. Take the hands of their children now. If we are government, their children would study free. If we are government, their children go free study at the best university in Latin America, not the most expensive. What we want is simply to say, who say they have copied our ideas than good. How good. But we are committed. They have copied our ideas of a tax reform. That well, but we are convinced, that the rich should pay more, and those who have less should pay less.

They have also said they want change. That good. But they have the commitment that you have all the candidates. This commitment is the most important that I know in the past year. A commitment of conviction. Some say, many, that our time is 2017, is not it ?, that is not now. We have to win in 2017. I ask you, what their children will enter the school in 2017? Will they get sick in 2017? Do they have decent pensions until 2017? You want decent salary in 2017? Now we can succeed. Now you can make changes.

Some say they are almost voting for us. What we have called the "almost-Frame," which are about. I want to say, and I want to ask: the near-eye there in the office? Is there worth almost minimum wage? No, we want change, not a quasi-change. Michelle Bachelet, change is possible, that you can trust. Evelyn Matthei, understand, change is important. Some promise us change, but with bad brakes. We propose a change without bad brakes. Do not be afraid. Yes, Sebastian Pinera was a tangled government, to put it elegantly. More or less. But do not be afraid. It can. I heard the streets, have traveled ten times to Chile. And what I saw is a wave of hope. A wave of hope to see a change without bad brakes, and not a brake on change. I propose a change.

In the next four years I will play entirely for that. And I want to ask for an opportunity that night to you Chileans, to the news, because I know that some are direct. I want to ask from the heart, I ask an opportunity for Chileans. An opportunity to discuss with Michelle in the second round. Without intermediaries, face to face, for the second round.

In the second round, I want to discuss with Michelle, face to face, without intermediaries. For us to be accurate. Chileans to see if they want a change or a change almost. I propose to give us a chance. It's you deserve, you deserve it. You deserve that opportunity. It's your time. It is not that I bearing a presidential blanket for a personal whim. This is the currency that we have a president with courage to end abuses of banks. It is to have a second round. Yes, a month campaign. For many it is a joke, but I prefer a month's campaign four years of disappointment. This is the time, one month campaign to discuss, to argue. Yes, I think Michelle is a good person. I also think it's a good person. But it is not that. It is public and free education. It is those at the bottom, they have the best clinics in Chile, not the worst. Have you the best doctors in every corner. Clinicians and specialists. That doctors have throughout Chile. It is that universities charge decently when they are private. Today there is a university called University of the Americas, there are 32,000 students who pay, and a lot, a university that is not accredited. Four hundred thousand of you are 2.9 billion dollars. Private debt that many of you were drowned for their children to be lawyers, journalists, engineers, is 2.9 billion dollars. Is not normal.

I will call you to make change. I would also say to the younger, make no mistake: politics gets into your bed. To you that it looks boring, make no mistake. Farm policy the amount of the minimum wage, decides the morning after pill. The policy builds the future, and your future is your responsibility, not just mine. You must go to vote. For you and for me. Vote because you want to.

I'm finishing. Our ideas, which were minority, and says, in 2009, the majority today. That good. In the debate that we all saw on television, I had great consensus. But we go further. Yes, we want a constituent assembly. Because it is good for Chile. Trust, gentlemen entrepreneurs. The owners of Falabella. The owners of newspapers. The owners of wealth in Chile. You know, the owners of wealth in Chile, are you this, there are very few rich Chile. Put your hand here tonight, ending the campaign, you richer, they know they can pay a little more tax so that none of these children have to pay so dearly for its university. A richer you drink tonight them a message: do not be afraid. I'm convinced from the currency you pay more taxes. They should help. They should help the majority. Everyone must help.

They must also understand that it is clearly difficult, nothing will be immediate, everything is difficult. But the interesting thing is not whether it's hard or not. The interesting thing is first to say yes to the constituent assembly and then see how hard you are. First convictions, then discuss further steps. The conviction is that I want you all have the same education as the children of the deputies of San Bernardo. The same. As simple as that. Have today the richest fighting over their children to get a high school, and not pulling the schools. You return to education the honor you have, and is not an argument di left and right. Education is a national issue. Usually nationalism.

So I repeat, finish, tonight I ask you to think. Think about that we talked, decide tonight. Decide, there are three days left. They have Thursday night, the Friday and Saturday to open the new Chile, and beat the old Chile. Beat the pituto. Beating the usual suspects. Three nights stay. Three nights. In addition to asking an opportunity to discuss with Michelle, fraternally, a republican, I ask you tonight to multiply. The campaign ends today. But at home, in commerce, in the corners, convince those who vote with resignation to the dish some repetition. There is more. The world is changing. There is no reason, there is a lot of money in Chile. Chile has saved 22 billion dollars. There is money saved. With silver SEP are investing outside of Chile, our silver. There are conditions to invest in Chile and do bigger things. You can go further and not be afraid.

I understand the distrust in politics. But it is the policy that we change society, not the economy. In countries change the policy. In 2009 many of you voted against something. 20% I got, I assure you it was a vote of protest. Today, I think we are in this square we want something, it's a yes vote, a vote for health worthy, one vote safer San Bernardo. Each of you with Marisela has clearly told us, we have clearly told us that in San Bernardo is what they fear crime. And crime, believe me, I already competed with a man on my right was called Sebastian Pinera, and telling in all discussions the party of criminals would end. I wanted pifiarlo, I do not pifie of respect. But I laughed, because I heard an economist say that the problem of security in San Bernardo was more checkpoints, more police. I want to say that security, crime, have to be combated with intelligence. There are 30,000 young people who do not go to school every day. They do not go to school. We must rescue dropouts. All young have to be taken. And as president I'll get these kids on the streets to return to school. They have to go to school. There's the risk factor.

And tell them that we have to amend the Criminal Code, because I want those who guard pharmacies, which increased the price of your choice. Today they condemned ethics classes until recently. I want that white-collar criminals know the price. Because when a young vest steals Falabella is merciless system. I know people who have stolen a jacket, and finished prisoner. He did it out of fear and hunger. But I know executives, who came to you the interest rate they colluded. They are indebted unfairly. They are also criminals.

Finished. I want a country without fear. I want a country where we have no more fear. No more fear or desonfianza neighbor, you have no fear of the elephant Jumbo, you have no fear of duck with roasted, not afraid of the dog have Lipigas. Do not be afraid to everyone. In the Republic of trust I want to preside with you. Not only. It not only handles better, it goes better together.

Yes, for the last time before the second round, I want to ask your vote. We need your vote, because we can win and we lose in the second round. But in the second round, your vote is a vote for free public education, not ambiguity. We want a vote for the constituent assembly. A vote for the environment. A vote against Pascua Lama, a vote against HidroAysén. A vote for the right to cry for clean water. A vote no for me is a vote for you, it is a vote for you.

I conclude with a phrase, and I thought a lot. Our slogan is "If You Want It, Chile Changes". My phrase is "If You Want It, Chile Changes". But tonight I want to change. Sure about you. But what matters from that night is that you dream of the future, created and can build that future, in the second round on Monday. So I end up with a sentence, which is not mine, which ended some speeches. I stopped to be interested by the conviction that it was that if you want, Chile changes. A sentence of a man I remembered many times in this election. That is not calculated. Who gave his life for you. This man is not calculated. As Carlo does not calculate, as many of you do not calculate. The man said something, I want to repeat it together: Forward, forward, with all the force of history. A hug, and succeed! A hug! Good evening.
