DC’s Eric Aedo Joins Jeannette Jara Campaign, Cementing Party’s Backing

Deputy Eric Aedo said on 28 July that he will formally join the presidential campaign team of Unidad por Chile candidate Jeannette Jara, becoming the first member of Chile’s Christian Democratic Party (DC) to do so. Aedo confirmed on CNN Chile that Jara had authorised him to disclose the appointment and that they would define his specific role in the coming days. The move follows the DC’s national council decision two days earlier to back Jara, a former labour minister, rather than field its own nominee in the November 2025 election. Party leaders argued that supporting a single candidacy would facilitate a unified parliamentary list with the governing coalition. Internal divisions preceded the vote. Deputies Ricardo Cifuentes and Eric Aedo had publicly debated whether the party should retain “freedom of action” or negotiate a joint ticket. Cifuentes urged consideration of an independent or centre-left figure, while Aedo stressed that a common presidential bid was “common sense” if the DC wanted a shared congressional slate. By entering the campaign, Aedo said he aims to help broaden Jara’s economic platform—reinforcing private-property protections and entrepreneurship—and to “defeat the advance of José Antonio Kast,” the right-wing contender leading recent polls. Jara, for her part, welcomed the backing, describing it as a step toward building the broadest centre-left coalition since the 1990s.