Chile: Progressivism in opposition

In Chile progressivism upon to be opposition, the strategy aims mainly to not take a step back in progress on more equal opportunities for the poorer classes and middle class, not to belittle the state privatized the few companies that are and not lose focus of public policy that the most important countries on the welfare and development of people and especially of their workers.

The last elections in Chile (2010) had a denouement worthy of analysis, after 20 years of rule by one of the most successful conglomerates republican history, the coalition suffered its first defeat in the presidential ballot, for three points against the right candidate representative of the parties of the Alliance for Chile, I mean the RN and UDI. Happened, I just want to summarize the three ideas discussed after all, I find may partly explain the defeat of liberalism Chile: The first idea how to realize in a country with 20 years of growth, it is possible to bring about change social and economic self Coalition of Parties for Democracy can not be interpreted in terms of the new needs generated, losing an electorate that in the early ninety-two thousand was incumbent on the ballot, but now am redrawn the phenomenon itself social set up.

A second idea is related to errors in the gestation of the presidential candidacy of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, which had an original sin, which is not being validated by a national primary that was not exclusive of any other candidates and ideas that would allow pooling from the origin to all democratic and progressive forces in Chile. In practice it happened that four candidates for the presidency three values representing the democratic and progressive forces of the left and center left, a Christian Democrat and two former Socialist Party members, only one candidate against the right cluster.

A third idea that I am going around was whether progress could have triumphed had been José Miguel Insulza (OAS) or the President Ricardo Lagos Escobar, instead of Don Eduardo Frei: I think the defeat of liberalism was imminent, not is necessarily a question of candidates in this election but I also had weight, but central was the inability to interpret the current circumstances of Chilean society, their needs, their desires. After that unite the political forces in that speech. Today's society the majority vote on the right think by the merit of the ideas that succeeded in passing: change, hope, future, as a way to symbolize the desired economic growth increasingly aspirational Chilean society

In Chile progressivism upon to be opposition, the strategy aims mainly to not take a step back in progress on more equal opportunities for the poorer classes and middle class, not to belittle the state privatized the few companies that are and not lose focus of public policy that the most important countries on the welfare and development of people and especially of their workers.

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