on july 14, 2013, primary elections were done inside the popular will party for the office of mayor in el hatillo, faced david smolansky against eduardo battistini, winning with 514 votes against 350, translated into 59%. later that year, in december elections were participating miguel mariño for the venezuela's united socialist party, elias sayegh for primero justicia party, diana d'agostini for accion democratica party and david smolansky for the popular will party; the last three were all candidates for the democratic unity roundtable coalition (dur), this was due el hatillo being the only municipality within the metropolitan area of caracas where there was no consensus on a single candidate by the dur. smolansky was victorious with 13,607 votes or 44.24% and a comfortable margin of 12.8 points over sayegh who obtained 9,567 votes (31.11%), both above mariño who would get the third place with 3,520 votes or 11.44%.