Santiago de Chile_ Isabel Allende recognized as an honor to be among the options for the position and added that there is a symbolic issue about the possibility of an Allende to occupy again the presidency of Chile, Radio Rebelde reported.

According to Isabel Allende, senator for the Socialist Party (SP) of Chile, daughter of former president Salvador Allende, she could present his candidacy for the upcoming presidential elections in that nation.

According to the local media, the also president of the SP, is evaluating the possibility of running for the contest, without clinging to an absolute possibility.

"This was initially not in my plans, but it has already started to become real, there is many people constantly urging me to make up my mind, many people on the street hurrying me," she said.

At the same time she assured that "the decision also depends on the political formation, if they think I am the right person. If there us a better positioned person to reach the Palace of La Moneda, the seat of government, there is no problem for that person in accepting it. "

Allende inherits a popularity marked by his father's achievements during his presidential term, and the events that led to his subsequent overthrow by Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in 1973.

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