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Juntos Podemos Más Covenant Coalition

Monday February 9, 2009

concertacion_juntospodemosmas Since the return of multiparty democracy, the Chilean has been involved in the straitjacket of the binomial electoral system. Breaking with the marginalization of the 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 dubbing JPM deal, produces the term of the exclusion policy of the parliamentary left and a very significant, because such growth would be at the expense of the interests of the Chilean right, who would, therefore , Parliamentary forces diminished in inverse proportion to the success of the JPM.

While this agreement is not a new political alliance, but an instrumental-electoral agreement, it is without doubt the beginning of a new form of relationship between the left bloc 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 the right is not available to perform.

One such topic is precisely the binomial system reform in the parliamentary election in order to change it to a perfect proportion to permit the participation of all political parties in parliament. This will end the over representation of the right, giving way to new axis in the Chilean political majorities around the center-left and left in Congress.

So the benefits that can cause this agreement are both parliamentary seats and in the positioning of substantive items on the country historically hampered by the right. JPM wins in the presence legislature, which would eventually make a block more to stand in forthcoming elections, 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.

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