"No opposition may abandon its mission, leaving the government more control," said Gianfranco Pasquino Italian political scientist in his book "The Opposition" .
Chilean political culture is accustomed inertia He ruled that the Concertación and the Alliance was in the opposition, during the 20 years that have passed the new Chilean democracy. This changed, but the policy changes do not occur immediately even if this institutionally has already occurred. Change is a process, especially in the case of Chile, where the Coalition ruled for many years, was also in the past, when ruled right next to the Pinochet regime, the Coalition led government assumed a time. In the early years of Aylwin, many activists and leaders of the ruling parties were stuck in a speech democracy dictatorship, that's one reason it took so the discussion of the end of the transition: For its part, the discourse of right at the dawn of the new democracy was that all positive results were obtained thanks to the Coalition inheritance I had left the military government. After a while, both coalitions were placed in the political position that corresponded to either government or opposition, the latter will cost more learning, build a speech, consolidate party unity. Recall that during the Aylwin and even during the first part of Frei, the opposition became entangled in constant infighting, which was even involved the current President of Chile, the case of eavesdropping, called Piñera-Gate is just one of the many disagreements between the then opposition parties. From the first nomination for President of Joaquin Lavin, the right assumes the that called Pasquino front and organized opposition.
For its part, the Coalition knows, in another context, which is to be opposition. The opposition of the second half of the decade of '1980s Aylwin was able to consolidate what has been called "the meeting and unity of opposites" as well as having had a single political speech, which was the peaceful return to democracy and a program defined government, called "alternative project". But the interesting thing also is that the coalition, and opposition was able to put a positive political concepts that have negative bias, opposition is a concept that connotes the opposite, from impediment, obstacle, of deconstruction, in order to negative. In this sense, the confrontation of October 1988 plebiscite, managed to put the "NO" as a positive element of hope and unity.
At present, the Government must quickly learn to govern, not with cash but with programmatic and ideological policies that distinguish the previous government the Coalition. Thus, as the seal of the Aylwin government was reconciliation and growth with equity, the government unlike Aylwin is not foundational, must quickly find a stamp of government ideology.
For its part, the Coalition is to quickly learn to be opposition, no longer governs the executive branch and does not represent the same political coalition that was founded in February 1988. The coalition as we knew that coalition is not born to defeat the dictatorship whose survival was subject to govern responsibly Chile. From the Conclusion of the founding fathers, many changes have occurred and today the first thing is to adapt their games to new social and political reality that lives Chile. As ever socialists, Christian Democrats and Social Democrats joined in a political context, to defeat a dictatorship and consolidated democracy, the unity of the opposition must be above all ideological, not only to regain power is far beyond a holding company. The center-left parties should understand that before consolidating the unity of the opposition, to modernize and meet the new requirements that society demands of the opposition and then reveal whether or not the Coalition as a conglomeration of ideas, and if so , show the country that is a real opposition, which aims to lead the country again with a new project.
Dr. Phil. Andres Jouannet
Doctor in Political Science, Director CIECH
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