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The Clinic Javalquinto

Among the unlikely candidates, the one that has had the greatest public resonance is that of Bernardo Javalquinto, who, last month, launched his candidacy with great fanfare at the Casa Quemada Cultural Center, located on Catedral Street. Born in New York, due to his father's diplomatic work, Javalquinto lived his childhood far from Chile on a journey that included a visit to Egypt, the country where he lived when the 6-day War took place. When he was a teenager, he returned to Chile, finished high school at the Sagrado Corazón de Talagante school, where he settled with his family. Today Javalquinto lives very close to there, in Peñaflor.

- It is not like the normal life of a santiaguino. One lives another reality in the countryside, that one sees closer to vulnerable people and the lack of opportunities. My father always took me to the towns and told me “Bernardo, you can't allow it” - says the candidate for The Clinic.

According to the profile, Javalquinto himself presented to the media at 16 and after the death of his father, he decided to emigrate again to the United States: “to study and work, helping his family along the way. He did multiple jobs for this, such as kitchen assistant and waiter in restaurants. Thanks to this and after years of effort, study and work, he managed to finish his studies as an Economist, MBA, and Ph.D.”.

Bernardo is probably a stranger in the political sphere, but with experience in the private sphere. He was manager of the questioned airline LAW, in the midst of a crisis that caused the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics to revoke the company's Air Operator Certificate. He also worked for six years at the World Bank and other large international organizations.

Regarding his time at the airline, the candidate points out to The Clinic: “The most beautiful thing about all this is that most of the employees we were with for those three months (LAW) are supporting me because they saw the management I did. I spoke with them and they were hopeful that we would be able to save the company. We did it, but we could not execute it. They write to me all the time supporting me”.

Regarding his candidacy, Javalquinto assures that he wants to represent a third option for the center, beyond the candidates from the left and the right who led the polls.

“Many people do not like that because we are causing a little noise. People like their comfort zone, but when you get them out of there, they will do the impossible because I don't appear in the media, but unfortunately social networks have changed the world”.

In this regard, Javalquinto ensures that he has felt restricted and censored by the national media. –CNN Chile did not cover my release. I had to send a letter to CNN from the United States. I sent the letter at 10:28 and at 12 the note was already published -the candidate comments. - I told them that it seemed to me that freedom of the press in Chile was not so freedom of the press and that they were not the values that CNN delivers to the world.

From CNN Chile, the channel's senior officials confirm the presidential candidate's email, although they specify that the note of his candidacy had already been published on their social networks and that they only forwarded the link.

Homonymous careers Bernardo Javalquinto, for his part, is married for the second time and has three daughters. At the time of starting his presidential path, he asked his close circle to limit their social networks.

-One tries to put the family aside because the paparazzi and that kind of thing are always falling on top, so I told my wife to delete your Facebook and Instagram and let me take the blows because I am going to be in the Fight.

Road to La Moneda

For its part, Javalquinto already has a government program proposal which includes 13 points, which includes priorities in Health, Education, and gender parity, as well as a reform of Carabineros, liberal policies on value issues, and the recognition of Chile as a multinational nation.

It also proposes a package of economic measures that among its main points highlights "a new union strengthening the program, in order to increase the participation of workers in the decisions of their companies."

This last point is key, not only in its eventual implementation in the government but also because of the role it will play in the task of collecting the candidate's signatures.

–We are going to do some courses to modernize the union system so that they understand the business side and that the employer also understands the unions. They are totally willing to get us the signatures that we need. We are negotiating that. Imagine there is a professional divers union that has 30,000 members. With them, we have the signatures.

Regarding his presence in social networks, Javalquinto assures that his strength is on Instagram and Facebook, in neither of those two accounts does he exceed 2,000 followers. Through these networks, he sends messages with his proposals to his followers internally.

Regarding the financing of the launching of his campaign and the rest of his candidacy, he assures that he receives foreign financing, but that he prefers not to personalize his benefactors, since “it can cause envy, or they can talk about anything and they are contacts that have been difficult to earn their trust”.

About his eventual presidency, Javalquinto thinks something similar: - All the people who are unhappy are obviously going to look for an alternative and that is what is being a stone in the establishment's shoe. I think they must be terrified that an independent comes out and wins. It would be the first time in history.