The year they commemorate 50th anniversary of the coup Chili pepper against Salvador AllendeA party claiming to be a Pinochetist who was destroyed by blood and fire on September 11, 1973, and opposing the overthrow of the Constitution made during the dictatorship, sweeps the elections of those who prepared the new Magna Carta. Chileans oscillate between bewilderment and the confirmation of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
1. bipolar country
The definition belongs to the academic and the psychoanalyst. German Silva CuadraIn a column published on the portal ‘El Mostrador’, he tries to explain the present day of Chile. “When the political period between 2019-2023 is examined by years, It will be difficult to understand what is happening in our country.“In this sense, he reminded that 80 percent of the people voted to change the dictatorship-induced Constitution in 2020. Later, all existing political parties were punished in the parliamentary election, such that more than 60 percent of them were 155 conventional independents. Then, 35-year-old left-wing young Gabriel Boric was elected president, but was later rejected in public consultation in 2022, a constitutional proposal that “appears to reflect a progressive country. … The resounding electoral victory of the Republican Party is the most surprising part of it.”real roller coaster“.
2. Role
The historic street protests of October 2019 opened the door to thinking about a country with Magna Carta.rule of law“, with strong environmental and gender content. After that Constitution’s defeat at the polls, and under the lingering effects of the pandemic, job loss, and inflation, these desires were replaced by an agenda that puts it at the center of the debate. insecurity issue and rejection of immigration, especially Venezuelan. Former MP José Antonio Kast, more than one Chilean Jair Bolsonarobecame the spokesperson for claims that the media knows how to amplify. His figure will not only protect the constitutional process. He has been presenting himself as the far-right’s 2025 presidential card since Sunday night and believes that the same thing he lost to Boric in the second round of 2021 will not happen to him.
3. New actors
republican Louis Silva He became one of the stars of the election. Not only because he is the top-rated constitutional adviser, but also because of his own biography and political program. Silva, 45 years old lawyer and legal doctor He is a member of Opus Dei.and had the support of the capital’s most prosperous communes. His victory was built on social networks, where he carried out a real pedagogical task, especially for the far right. It was no accident that he called himself “professor” and, moreover, “the chosen one of the forces”, a reference to the “Star Wars” movie epic. Silva has already warned that she wants to eliminate all attempts to legalize voluntary termination of pregnancy and euthanasia: “I love another clause that says the family is the basic core of society.” He will serve as the family’s great advocate on the Constitutional Council.
4. Anger and frustration
The election results and the emergence of new and surprising faces show disillusionment with a born weak left government. However, the rejection expressed at the ballot box also affects the confidence in the democratic system to solve the problems of the society and politics in general. While 4.52% of the voters cast blank votes, 16.68% canceled the vote. “let them all die“”, “I don’t know”, “socialist thieves”, “Death to the state”, “Bastards”, “We don’t deserve this protected democracy” were some of the phrases left to challenge the vote. Some analysts warn that this deep disillusionment, added to the rise of radical sections of the right, could escalate and further erode a president who hasn’t even completed two years in office.
5. The shadow of political revenge
Boric and his allies find themselves facing a political nightmare in the form of a question mark. WhatHow will a left-wing government and a far-right-leaning Constitutional Council coexist? and a Congress where the ruling party does not have a majority? After learning the review As a Debt preventative “pendulumHe was “one of the voices in history that did not include the right in the drafting of the Magna Carta” when he “consistently moved from one extreme to the other” and urged Republicans not to be stuck with the left at the 2021 Constitutional Convention. While it was rejected, it now has a minority. We will play great songs because we represent the people. The winners, we represent the people.” The constitution did not prosper, the “people” changed their minds, and the far right now dominates, with a clear desire for restoration.