[4][5][6][7][8] On June 3, 2024, Daniel Jadue entered preventive prison, ordered by Judge Paulina Moya Jiménez, after the lawsuit that businessman Álvaro Castro, owner of Best Quality Products SpA, presented against Archifarp (Asociación Chilena de Farmacias Populares) and Jadue himself as Major of Recoleta Municipality, acussing of a millionaire debt on the sell of boxes of N95 surgical masks, gloves and thermometers to Archifarp on 2020.

He has also carried out research on quality of life, gender, youth crime, employment and poverty in cities in Latin America and Europe.

For more than five years, he was a panelist for the talk show El Termómetro on Chilevisión and participated in a political analysis program every Friday on Radio Nuevo Mundo.

The La Chimba center also develops a constant work of popular education for democracy, the empowerment of social leaders and environmental sustainability.

He created the first "people's pharmacy" in the country, allowing drug prices to fall by 30% to 50% (three companies that have traditionally exercised an oligopoly in this market in Chile).

During the second round of the 2017 Chilean general election, Jadue joined fellow communist and federal deputy Camila Vallejo in endorsing centre-left candidate Alejandro Guillier.

This was made in the face of accusations that Communist Party leaders were failing to participate in a united left-wing front against right-wing candidate Sebastián Piñera.

Jadue's policies included "popular pharmacies" operated by local governments to provide low-cost medicine to citizens.

[46] López stated that Jadue would pursue a social-democratic program if elected president, explaining he would govern in a manner "very similar to what many European countries did in the '70s and early '80s.

"[47] López has additionally stated that Jadue rejects the land expropriation programs implemented associated with the "Soviet regime" and the "Allende model".

Jadue favors the modification of Chile's gender identity law to allow for transgender Chileans to change their legal sex and name on government documents.

[69] In 2021, Jadue praised the election of Mapuche leader Elisa Loncón as president of the Constitutional Convention, calling her victory "undoubtedly the beginning of a new Chile" that would lead to "profound transformations for the benefit of the people".

[71] Since his initial election as Mayor of Recoleta, Jadue has been noted for championing "people's pharmacies" (farmacias populares), a series of municipal-run drugstores to provide patients with affordable medication.

[2][72][73][74] The "people's pharmacy" program is considered to be highly influential in Chile, with a 2016 report noting that the model has even seen adoption in areas far more affluent than the predominantly working-class suburb of Recoleta.

[75] Jadue has asserted that the popular pharmaceutical model used in Recoleta is superior to that used in the wealthy neighborhood of Las Condes, and maintains that only the former has the potential to be applied nationwide.

[81] Jadue stated in 2020 that he condemns "any type of violation" of human rights following the release of findings by the United Nations that the Maduro government engaged in extrajudicial killings and torture.

[82] At times, Jadue has criticized left-wing politicians affiliated with the "pink tide" such as former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, whose leadership he has described as "neoliberal."

[84] Jadue has argued in favor of a "mutually beneficial" agreement with the Bolivian government, in which territory would be ceded in exchange for Chile acquiring some gas and water rights.

[87] As a self-proclaimed communist, Jadue has been subject to criticism from conservatives who allege he would govern in an authoritarian manner akin to the leadership of the former Soviet Union.

Mauricio Rojas, a Swedish-Chilean politician who served as Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage in 2018, wrote an open letter to Jadue to inform him of the crimes committed by communist regimes.

[95] Jadue has been accused by the Simon Wiesenthal Center of antisemitism, which placed him in its "Top Ten Worst Global 2020 Anti-Semitic Incidents".

[96] In response the following day, a group of academics and organizations, including the Argentinian branch of the small International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, stated their support for Jadue, claiming that "It is inconceivable that critique towards the State of Israel, which has created a reality of apartheid in the occupied territory, be understood as a form of antisemitism".

[97] However, in June 2021, the press circulated a page from Jadue's yearbook featuring antisemitic humor, such as references to cleansing the city of Jews.

After outcry from Chile's Jewish community, a conservative majority in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies approved a resolution, 79-47-20, calling on Jadue to denounce the Antisemitism of the document.

Well, here we are faced with an ideology that I believe is the most Nazi thing I have seen in my life.” For these comments, Jadue was criticized by fellow leftists Carmen Hertz and Miguel Lawner, and by the Jewish Community of Chile.

[106] Jadue has been accused of hypocrisy following revelations that he owns multiple properties as well as a Mini-Cooper, considered to be a luxury car.