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He says he wants to preside over Chile, but lives in Alabama.
He says that his program is better than that of his rivals, but he wants to zoom in on the debates.
He says that he has the formula to reduce inequalities and make Chilean life more fair, but
accumulates a debt for alimony for his children
close to a quarter of a million euros.
He says that he will arrive at the Palacio de La Moneda, but he has not been in Chile for three years, and he will not even be there this Monday for the debate of candidates, nor on Sunday 21, election day:
he will stay in the United States after giving positive in Covid.
Welcome to
Franco Parisi,
presidential candidate of the People's Party (PDG).
What is striking in the history of Parisi, an economist promoted for years by television and social networks, is that with all that background, he is not doing badly: he is
between fourth and fifth in the polls
, hovering around 10% of intention to vote and in some measure relegating even
Sebastián Sichel
, the scorched candidate of the ruling party of President Sebastián Piñera.
"I want less stick faces in La Moneda and more new faces," challenges Parisi in his zooms from the United States, more precisely from Birmingham,
a city of 200,000 inhabitants in deep southern Alabama
.
The "stick face" (cheekiness in Chilean slang) is especially striking in the case of Parisi, who does not give interviews to the media and everything indicates that he would be arrested if he ever sets foot in Chile again: he did not comply with the divorce agreement with his ex-wife and
owes 207 million pesos, about 220,000 euros
, in alimony for his children.
"After paying some fees, in 2016 he stopped delivering the money legally agreed for his two minor children: 207 million pesos plus interest, readjustments and costs," recently detailed "Channel 13" in a special report.
According to the channel, the Chilean justice could not notify him until now of his judicial situation, nor of the order for the execution and seizure of his assets.
Parisi's registered legal address is a house that was sold five years ago through schemes that separated him from that operation, but allowed him to collect a hefty amount, close to half a million euros, and buy
a 314-square-meter house in the United States.
.
Even so, the Chilean legal system does not place obstacles for a candidate in such a strange situation to run for head of state.
Instagram, Facebook and YouTube are the platforms of Parisi, known years ago as
"the economist of the poor"
and who rejects the media: "We have already learned, we do not trust the big media, we believe in social networks."
A network program, "Bad boys" (bad boys) made him popular among a sector of Chilean society.
And it was on social networks where he explained, when the time of the first presidential debate came, why he would not be there: "Due to labor issues and the very planning of the presidential campaign, for the estimated day and time, I will not be able to be in the study in Santiago de Chile".
When the "no" came to his virtual presence,
Parisi victimized himself and denounced "censorship".
Not a few Chileans remember that Parisi owned "Royal Real Estate", a company that guaranteed real estate investments and income with zero risk.
The risk, however, was high:
many of those who invested reported that they stopped receiving the money from these alleged income.
Along with a brother, Parisi owns Parisifx, an investment fund based in the Caribbean microstate of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and now also in Alabama.
On his resume, teaching at the University of Alabama appears and disappears from his Linkedin profile.
Chilean media such as 'El Mercurio' and 'El Mostrador' reflected
"inappropriate behavior" that cost him his job at Texas Tech University.
On a trip to Chile on behalf of the university,
Parisi "became obsessed" with a 19-year-old girl, according to both media
.
He sent her an extremely short dress that the young woman refused and, when asked if she would run for the Presidency again (she had already done so in 2013, obtaining 10%), the answer was "only if you are my First Lady".
Some time later he told him:
"If he were president, he would have kidnapped you already."
But the insistent question that points to Parisi goes through how it is possible that he is running for the presidency of a country that avoids treading.
And the answer is consistent with his populist style.
"Piñera does not support me, I have to work. My question is when I take my vacations, now or close to the election? The decision is clear (...). Hopefully it ends in the second round, and then I retirement.
I'm a legend, I killed me politically and economically
, I relived the PDG and I'll be four years at La Moneda. and if I will not be muertito, but quiet ".
If it does not finally arrive at La Moneda, Chileans will be left without seeing how Parisi launches its electoral program, which includes building
"a 'Rockódromo' that brings together Chilean rock bands
and strengthens them in the music market", as well as
"mailboxes for adoption" in which
unwanted
newborns can be left
by their parents: "The opening and closing system must have sensors to alert the staff for the rapid detection of the newborn."
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