[9] [10][11] In an interview conducted in September 2012, during her campaign for mayor of Providencia, Josefa Errázuriz stated that she was against same-sex marriage, which triggered criticism from LGBT.

A group of councilors from the Alliance —a center-right coalition— boycotted the session where the eventual name change would be voted on, calling it a "media whim", and alleged a contradiction between the participatory vocation of the mayor and her refusal to submit the decision to a communal plebiscite was achieved quorum to meet and the change was approved after a 4–1 vote in councilors and the support of the mayor.

[19][20][21] In December 2014, an article in the newspaper El Mostrador reported that on June 28, 2013, the mayor used the municipal palace located in Providencia to celebrate her nephew's marriage, which again earned her the target of criticism.

This allegation is based on an external audit by KPMG which found a total shortfall of $6.925 million between state grants and CDS monies, much of it unsupported.

The involvement of Josefa Errázuriz in the complaint is due to two reasons: 1) the alternate secretary of the corporation, Eliécer Martínez, who also happened to be the municipal finance director in her term was selected by the mayor 2) legally the chairman of the board of directors is responsible for overseeing the use of the entity's money, for which complicity or negligence on the part of her administration as chairman of the board is assumed.