Covenant Coalition Juntos Podemos Más
Monday 9 February 2009
Since the return of multiparty democracy, Chile has been involved in the straitjacket of a binomial electoral system. Breaking with the exclusion of extra-parliamentary left by way of political agreements, is the first step in changing this election mechanism established and defended by the Chilean right to maintain an artificial tie forces in Congress.
The occurrence of the election agreement Coordination with the Juntos Podemos Más JPM can have a major impact on Chilean politics. The choice of product candidates JPM dubbing of the covenant, produces the term of the policy exclusion and extra-parliamentary left in a very significant, because such growth would be at the expense of the interests of the Chilean right, who would, for this reason , Parliamentary forces diminished in inverse proportion to the success of JPM.
While this agreement is not a new political alliance, but an instrumental-electoral agreement, it is without doubt the beginning of a new relationship between the left block and the Coalition, in which raw generosity, political will and high-mindedness. However you say that JPM would always be a block of opposition to the government, there are political and social reforms around which could form new parliamentary majority that right is unavailable to perform.
One such topic is precisely the binomial system reform in the parliamentary election in order to perfect a proportional change by allowing the participation of all political parties in parliament. This would end the right of representation, giving way to new axis in the Chilean political majorities around center-left and left in Congress.
So the benefits it can produce this agreement are both parliamentary seats and the positioning of substantive items on the country historically hampered by the right. JPM wins in the presence parley, a fact that would eventually tie up more eligible in the next election, the Coalition wins the electorate who could benefit from the presidential run-off block and ends with the exclusion integrating all forces in the discussion legislative and thus substantial progress in improving our democracy.







