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to Blame for the electoral defeat is not only the ruling coalition parties Intellectuals speak

Analysis of the Presidents of the Coalition: After the failure of Eduardo Frei in the presidential elections for the first time the four political leaders of the coalition and together publicly discussed the current situation of the conglomerate. Gathered in "El Mercurio" not evade any topic: addressing the reasons for the defeat, debate about the responsibility that had the parties and the government of former President Bachelet, analyze the first thirty days in the opposition and deliver on the crucial definitions future.


On 11 March, just a month ago, the Coalition government was no longer after 20 years at La Moneda. The image of former President Michelle Bachelet delivered the presidential sash to Sebastián Piñera ended a political cycle in Chile. The world of the center happened in a matter of seconds to settle into the unknown stage of being fully democratic opposition.

since the aftermath of the earthquake in the middle, there was no time for reflection on this cluster has been defined by them as the most successful of the country's history. Some of their leaders have made public their individual analysis about the defeat and outlined what they think should be the coalition later. But so far, at least publicly, the ruling coalition as a whole had never discussed in depth about why the Coalition was no longer the Coalition and the challenges of the crucial stage start if they are to maintain the validity of their political project. Tomorrow, the coalition will have a caucus that does not address the main problems currently facing the conglomerate, but will focus on reconstruction.

Juan Carlos Latorre (DC) Adriana Muñoz (PPD), Fulvio Rossi (PS) and José Antonio Gómez (PR) are the visible faces of the new opposition. It's Thursday April 8 and we invite you to breakfast in the building of "El Mercurio" in Vitacura. It's the same dining room where lunch the day before the most influential ideologues of the Coalition, to discuss the same topics. At 8:30 begin arriving and between orange juice and coffee loaded, starts the debate on which was marked by the reasons for failure in the last presidential ...

Latorre: "The political expression more important than the Coalition has been their governments, not their parties. Such is the political power of the government in Chile, especially in a presidential regime, when we analyze why we lost obviously there is a responsibility on parties, because many of its members were in government, but the government was the main reference.

Gomez: "We lost a lot multiple errors. But there is a very easy to blame the loss: are political parties, and that is what they have been installed in the public eye. Political parties have never really taken policy decisions. The meetings of the Currency were meetings where we were going to hear what the government wanted to do. Many times we discuss issues and policy decisions had been taken and we thought they were wrong. "

Latorre:" When they start to rule the ministers and not those with political leadership and who have been elected as President of the Republic and when you start to put aside concerns of the Coalition for the demands of large sectors of society, it pays a cost. "

Gómez:" If there was a government ninguneo parties was that of Lagos ".

Muñoz:" The presidential system produces a strong institutional tension. One can blame the finance ministers, presidents, to which the parties were none, but what there was a tension between the self-flagellating and complacent, amongst our democratization agenda, equality and justice and pragmatism governance give Chile ".

Rossi:" In the loss responsibilities are shared between the coalition, government, political parties and parliamentarians. So, I do not blame the Minister of Finance. The problem was the mainstreaming led since 1990 by the pair (Henry) Strap-(Edgardo) Boeninger, and that meant that the parties were relegated.

Gómez: "Latorre means that when we discuss social policies within the government, we are not ignored, and ended up changing the harmony between the coalition and the needs of the people. With the modernization of politics, the differences between the Coalition and the Alliance did little sharper. "

Rossi:" Make no mistake, there is a responsibility to our communities in the loss. The blunders of the Presidents party in the National Stadium (during the presidential campaign), where they were Gomez and Latorre, were a criticism of the way we choose our candidates. At some point, José Antonio put his resignation to, and then Pepe Auth. Escalona Latorre and took another decision. "

Latorre," is that if we quit, then yes we lose blowout in the elections! ".

Rossi:" But it's a reality check. "

Latorre: "Enriquez-Ominami is one of the leaders that came right to the government. The Socialist Party had several presidential candidates ... "

Muñoz:" The cardinal sin was not to primary, because they arose individualism and egotism of three people from the Socialist Party.

Rossi: "The PS has responsibility. What is not going to have if Arrate, Navarro and Enriquez were from our ranks? ".

Latorre:" It is not easy to change the switch "
Latorre:" Coordination is quiet, much more relaxed than in his last stage government, in a process of readjustment as the opposition. Has had a very responsible attitude and has taken over what is happening in the country because of the earthquake, which is a problem that affects our political attitude. We are beginning to experience what it is to be opposition parties, and that is not easy, because after 20 years, almost unconsciously, we feel responsible for everything that happens as if we were still in government. It is not easy to change the switch ...".

Rossi: "The same people who complain that during those thirty days, the coalition has been motionless and mute said that, if lost, would live a diaspora, which would be a stampede. Some of PPD were to go to Marco Enriquez, a part of the PS would make an alliance with the PC, that would ally with Piñera DC. And the truth is that none of that happened. The Coalition continues and no one has questioned the alliance between the center and left to follow remains a key pillar.

Gomez: "I have a hue. I think the defeat, for us, was a strong political earthquake. But one thing is clear: the coalition there. We have a position, a political alliance that ruled 20 years and most likely in the next presidential election we have a new opportunity. But that requires a serious dialogue between us, and today the four presidents have tried to avoid conflict, some more than others. "

Muñoz:" Since January 17 we have been processing the loss and daily exercise learn to work as an opposition, both in Parliament and social fronts. From that space we have been, responsibly, maintaining coordination and coordination of the coalition, at least between their presidents. We are able to make Monday's meeting, which is not merely a technical meeting, but a political debate on how the Coalition can deliver cost-effective approaches, transparent, redistribution, equitable and above all, no privatization of the reconstruction. "

Muñoz: "Young people today are more greedy for power and prominence than the old"
Latorre: "The renewal of the kind of politics is necessary, but it has been caricatured in the idea of \u200b\u200brenewal. It's really strange that people who were over 20 years defining what was done or not done in government today speak of renewal, just when we lost. Why not occurred to them before? "

All:" Say name ".

Latorre:" The other day I heard José Miguel Insulza. And how strange to say it today, because if a person who was in all governments of the Concertación, was it. And not alone. "

Gómez:" Enrique Correa.

Latorre, "Correa, and one could put ten names here. The renewal has nothing to do with their faces or with a generational thing: people of the Coalition he had important responsibilities in government, and that does not rule out that they remain leaders. "

Rossi:" I want to disagree: I talked with Enrique Correa and I think his speech is genuine. "

Latorre:" But is true after the election. "

Rossi:" Correa and long Insulza who are in it, I am aware at least.

Latorre: "I do not."

Rossi: "The renovation has a generational component, no doubt. The matches were dedicated to working for the governments of the Concertación did well, but they neglected their relationship with the public. And that we all have some degree of responsibility ... Some more than others. "

Gomez:" The renovation is about a different way of doing politics. There is a generational issue.

Muñoz: "The renewal is generational, but political. But what is the new way of doing politics, if young people today are more eager for power and the role that old? Maybe it's a label to be installed in office, move generations. It is legitimate, if not bolted on this one, but it must be the product of a process. We, when we arrived at Parliament were very young and never occurred to us that Mario Palestro had to leave because he was old. The Brutal jumps renewal is renewal. "

Rossi:" If one does not make leaps brutal, it is impossible. In the case of PS, we the younger generation never had the option ... "

Latorre:" Do not speak of a particular party! ".

Rossi:" Let me raise it, I end Altira. Never had the option of power as today, when two of the three presidential candidates are of the new generation. And recently we had to raid the party, and is an extremely powerful signal that we are giving. "

Latorre:" The renovation is a project of collective character and is not associated the ambitions of people who, at any cost, try to show leadership, even with disloyalty. "

Rossi:" There was no lack of generosity of Bachelet "
Rossi:" I do not share the criticisms that have been made to the President Bachelet. Obviously there are shared responsibilities, but she made every effort to cooperate with the campaign. There was no lack of generosity, or wanted to favor his personal image over the success of the coalition. "

Latorre:" We must be able to analyze not only the successes of the last coalition government, but also those aspects that could have been done better. I am proud of the leadership the President, but there was a decision on certain social conflicts that may have had a direct bearing on the outcome of the election. It would be a liar if I say that conclusively. Particularly with regard to teachers, policemen, civil servants, 7% of retiree health ... The parties were categorical in order to be addressed in a different way to how they were resolved.

Muñoz: "President Bachelet did his job and he did splendidly. Is a leader and is the heritage of all Chileans. Take her out of the discussion, I mean the honestly. Neither me or my party will not find any attack on the President, because he did extremely well. "

Latorre:" I insist that they are not attacks on the President. "

Gomez:" I'm going to keep strict silence. Each of the coalition leaders have responsibilities and should be impeached from the point of view of the debate. But it is a reflection that the Coalition must do, not the minute. If we give fuel to have a headline that President Bachelet is responsible for the losses, we open the space to start a political discussion very deep. I, at least, I do not ...".

Latorre: "I do not think that you can not criticize the governments of the Concertación. Neither the last nor the ones who come back. How not to prosecute if we ourselves were part of government? ".

Gomez:" The responsible partner is having an opposition President "
Gómez:" On Wednesday we had a meeting with Larroulet, Minister Secretary General the Presidency, the political committee, and we said clearly we want to be a responsible opposition, to collaborate, but for these purposes requires a lot of dialogue, as did Bachelet, Lagos, Frei, Aylwin. But what we've seen, and although when he was elected Piñera we told that we were available to serve, we have never had a conversation, except Wednesday.

Rossi: "In many areas, as in any democracy, we will reach agreements, take projects that are important for the country and will count on our cooperation. But we need to mobilize civil society, he also hopes that the coalition continues to push a progressive agenda with issues such as therapeutic abortion, collective bargaining, the pension system, energy issues, public education, where we clearly have no agreement with government. Our impression has to be these issues and clearly mark the difference, because Piñera is very restrained for very conservative groups. "

Muñoz: "We must make a responsible opposition, just, a contributor to those issues related to reconstruction. Even before he took Piñera offered our help, we proposed specific initiatives, but never again heard the voice of President Piñera to accommodate this proposal. Insolently , said that 20 days have done more than 20 years. That has made changing the vision we had at the beginning. In the big issues we have a national project that we confront. "

Gomez: "The primary responsibility of having an opposition to be partner is who has the authority, the President of the Republic."
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Source: MONTES and PAMELA DEW ARAVENA - El Mercurio de Santiago.
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conglomerate on the crisis

Presidents of the Republic could not save games.

why the Coalition lost? Whose fault was it? ME-O, parties, former President Bachelet? What are the difficulties of being in opposition after 20 years in power? How to behave the conglomerate with the Government of Piñera? What should you do to center to stay in power? The most influential ideologists of the coalition as discussed in "The Mercury."


are not giving speeches, nor those who cite press conferences or those who have been in the forefront in public opinion over the last twenty years. But the work they have done in the Coalition has been as discreet as influential: the four guests who gathered last Wednesday in "El Mercurio" have nourished and content strategy for the last four governments have been the brains. Today it is the most influential intellectuals of the opposition. Probably those who, from behind, will guide the coalition in this new and complex process.

Ernesto Ottone, Clarisa Hardy, Eugenio Tironi and Sergio Micco from different fractions of the conglomerate. But they feel close or even friends, which warns the view before lunch to talk cheerfully convened at 13:30 hours. Joke, we recommend some texts and comment on current interest with confidence. But to sit at the table, there is fear of the discrepancy. Intersect at many points, but there is no fear to disagree about what happened, is happening and will happen with the Chilean center. Does

peak of the debate? When Tironi said the coalition lost for two reasons: Marco Enríquez-Ominami and because the great leaders of the Coalition did not invest its energy in avoiding degradation of the parties. Immediately

Clarisa Hardy replied: "I will refute the idea of \u200b\u200bEugene that the Coalition lost because the presidents did not make a bet on the games. If you look at the path the government of President Michelle Bachelet realizes that she is the expression of what the public felt that the parties did not express little different. And your choice ended up being supported because it represented the possibility of victory. How to blame a President not to strengthen parties as an expression of what she wants to transform socially? Nobody is called to do the impossible: here there was no possibility that a President would save the parties, which required substantial reforms. "

Ottone:" The problem is more general. The presidents of Chile are heads of state and government and coalition. It's too much paste. Is far too ornate.

Tironi, "But Lagos was, and, indeed, left a splendid election result."

Ottone, "Lagos tried, and all former presidents tried. All presidents tried to influence a more organized coalition, but these power groups within the parties, when presidents want to tidy, saw it as an intervention from outside. I do not think the weight of the blame on the presidents. It is unfair, because it is a phenomenon that has clear responsibilities in leading groups of political parties. "

Micco: "President Bachelet was head of state, head of government and head of the coalition. There is her popularity. It is an enormous political capital, that we all take care of. But it does not seem right to file full responsibility political parties, because all polls show the irrelevance of politics. "

Tironi: "We can not have the prestige of the president is up here and party down there, because that leads to the institutionalization of democracy. So popular presidents have to share a bit ...".

Hardy: "Sorry, but this scale is the problem with parties as an institution in this country, not even the most strenuous efforts of the President ...".

Tironi, "But who does it, if not the political leaders? The leaders are to address complex and difficult ...".

Hardy: "The limits to which they are faced with the presidents and the stakes are so many that if the parties, simultaneously, they do not address weaknesses have, put on the shoulders of the leaders a daunting task, in my opinion, unapproachable ".

Ottone:" Presidents of the Republic made efforts

Tironi ...". "I know, Ernesto, but we experiences of presidents past who have put their prestige and reputation with the public, to push through very difficult things, and against the establishment, against the opposition and often against their own coalition, and they succeeded. Our great panzers, in terms of prestige and popularity, not broken spears. The government distanced itself from the party because considered a nuisance, made arrangements with a group of parliamentarians to get some laws, the intellectuals have left the government, academia or companies, because they were also tired of the games. And became parties like the silly boy home, but with the ability to choose the presidential candidate. And then choose evil, we lost, and now all we blame only themselves. "

Ottone:" In the work of the Coalition, which had many achievements, there was a sharp weakness in the relationship between government and political parties. This weakness, in time, became a very negative for the continuation of the Coalition. And that was punished by the public. Today, this problem must be corrected, so we focus on the renewal of the party, because she is the one that has to generate legitimate leaders compete openly and likely to present a candidate alternative to the right and to succeed. "

All: "Completely agree".

Tironi, "The reason we lost? Marco Enríquez-Ominami y. .."
Micco: "When political parties have twenty years in government there are two phenomena. First, the institutionalization and bureaucratization of power, to lose contact with civil society. And second, called collective incentives, the country and the good are commonly replaced by selective incentives: status, power and money, and that's what happened to us. Therefore, the first challenge of the democratic parties is to disassociate the State and his reunion with civil society and with this size most epic of the great political projects. "

Ottone: "If the Coalition lost was not because the project has been exhausted: the administration of Michelle Bachelet ended with a high support, and if we were defeated in the elections was the failure of the governments of the Concertación, but by the mistakes of the conglomerate . That's a bitter feeling, frustrating for members of the Coalition. The problem was within the coalition and partisan political practices that were far from society. "

Hardy: 'The world concertacionista, civil organizations, which go beyond the classical institutions of the parties, and I will not be liable to anyone in particular, but there was a stiffness part of communities that did not connect with that energy, capacity and vitality. "

Tironi," I'm going to be provocative. The reason why we lost the elections called Marco Enríquez-Ominami. ME-O emerged into public life in the Coalition's primary, which was reached by the bureaucratization of the party leaders that privileged their own interests above the common interest. And the parties reached that level of degradation because the great leaders that the coalition had not invested or put their leadership role in this task. Is the President Bachelet, is the President Lagos. Have less responsibility, but also some, President Frei, and allow me excepted to President Aylwin, who was even able to assume the presidency of his party at a time when he was lying on the ground. I've done. "

Hardy:" We do not know how to be democratic opposition "
Tironi," I have seen the Coalition happy: at last doing something that would have liked to do for some time and had repressed by that sense of responsibility to be part of the Government. There was a sort of enclosed animal, which was to be able to be critical, to spend the permitted limit. In these thirty days have produced a sort of reunion with a deep ethos is rather rebellious. "

Hardy: "We are going through a difficult time, we do not know how is the coalition. It took us establish ourselves as opposed to dictatorship, and we can not be an opposition in a democracy. Not just for the change of government, but by the difficulty of formed after a disaster of the magnitude of the earthquake. Since we have a major task, reduces the urgency of what should have been substantive discussions. "

Micco: "The fear that many had was that after the defeat came the diaspora, and so far has not happened. The debate in the party's renewal of faces, styles, but I have not heard anyone say, so far , which must be broken with the Coalition. From this point of view, I am extremely happy as center-left in these first thirty days. "

Ottone," I do not share the idea that there is a center, self-existent, with very clear boundaries, and second, a left . These twenty years have been very powerful, and has set up a center-left continuum in which people recognize. This prevented the diaspora, which, if not have that strength it would have been the most logical. Finally, the important thing is the center as a whole, because many chickens do not make an eagle. "

Tironi," But the coalition has had two grants to hold together. First, Piñera Government, which has nothing to do with culture or tradition of the center. And second, to ME-O ".

Ottone," God hears you. "

Micco:" We present a single candidate "Ottone
:" There must be a profound renewal in center field. You must generate opposition proposals, governance, a force capable of reaching the Government, and that this be done in a legitimate competition: I'm about to change the law on political parties for their internal elections are open. That all citizens can vote, unless they militate in another community. "

Hardy:" It is urgent to change the law of parties, electoral system, calling for reforms to the popular initiative law that allows citizens have interference in public affairs. "

Micco:" Program, and coalition leadership. In the agenda item, a lot of conversation among intellectuals, social leaders, academics and civil society to build a new proposal. In the coalition, we must affirm our common desire to continue working together. And in the leadership, I am satisfied now that say only two things: that we will present a single candidate, and second, we set now open primary, compulsory and simultaneous ".

Tironi:" The current government can succeed and hit a very important fiber population. It is the application in the state of the business logic created from the success of the last 25 years. They post Chicago Boys. Does not represent the denationalization, but the privatization of the state, and eye, a large percentage voted for it. If the attitude of the Coalition is skepticism about Piñera, is the antirrenovación, and we may be looking at the navel. The renewal has to be important in the side of the coalition, in terms of leadership, styles, forms of organization, democratization, must exceed all bounds of what is open to anything ever. "

Ottone: "Our success is the misfortune of Piñera" Ottone
"Piñera's candidacy was able to unite the right, as without a program, but to do better management. Then came the earthquake, which generated a program. The Coalition also must be built as opposed to the world of reconstruction and is a very strong effort, because it must maintain its reputation as the government in the future, not abandoning the concept of governance with a populist management, small, petty, irresponsible. Our success should not be based on the misfortune of Piñera. We have to monitor, make alternative proposals, because we have another idea of \u200b\u200bthe reconstruction. "

Hardy: "The coalition agreement was not a pure election, and now have to rethink how to consolidate and renovate the center, in the midst of a catastrophe, is a pure complication. Our problem was political, and a fifth would be a government qualitative change with respect to the foregoing, precisely because he had reached this turning point. And now, how are you going to afford to make a substantive discussion on major policy and institutional reforms that this country needs in the midst of disaster? It something that will require most of the boldness of the Coalition. "

Tironi: "The coalition will be easy to be opposition and problems are being solved alone. First, the idea of \u200b\u200brebuilding is something that is very present in the world of the center. Two, because there is the problem I had right-wing opposition, which was tied for interest. And three, because the contrast between what the current government and the coalition so clear and so obvious, they are no longer necessary programmatic discussions on the political project ".

Micco:" We have four tasks. We monitor compliance with the promises of government. Also, compliance with the Constitution and laws, because it is a real risk of an extreme concentration of power in Chile. Rebuilding a country with an earthquake, where they will have to run and accelerate thousands and millions of dollars, is a hotbed of corruption. We represent the social and political ideas that will not be represented by public policies and projects Sebastián Piñera ".

Tironi," Only by Jaime Ravinet.

Micco: "I'm going to leave cause why . There was a political attempt to damage the Coalition, which ended in disaster. The fourth point is to be kept in the shadow cabinet, that is, a team of alternative government, ideas, programs and projects, so that the Coalition, when he returns to power, not to mind what happened to the right. "

Ottone:" I would add one point. The coalition has duties of vigilance against attempts by conservative revolution of the present government and also face the enormous task that made the Coalition to generate a healthy relationship between civil authorities and armed forces. "

Definitions:" If today were
presidential election, who would be their candidate?

Ottone, "Carolina Tohá"

Tironi, "Carolina Tohá.

Hardy:" Today, Michelle Bachelet, which does not mean at all that is thinking about the candidacy of 2014.

Micco: "I have candidate. "

Rossi:" It's premature, but now the person with the best option is President Bachelet.

Muñoz: "Michelle Bachelet".

Gomez: "Someone who represents a profound change not no, not the usual suspects. "

Latorre:" Clearly, today I have no candidate. "

" In short, the Government set

Piñera:

Ottone: "There is consensus, even among his supporters, that did not start well. "

Tironi," Piñera ".

Hardy:" Right. "

Micco:" Too confused to private interests with the public.

Rossi: "The new form of government, rule by decree."

Muñoz: "Improvisation."

Gómez: "Confused."

Latorre, "All media, despite their ads during the past year, very impromptu installation of your government."

-Bet: How many presidential terms



right will remain in La Moneda

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Ottone: "I hope that one."

Tironi, "One."

Hardy: "If I have to judge from this beginning, and I must confess that it is a very short and stressful start one. But it is unfair, because it very well could change Over the next time. "

Micco:" If we make the sticks well, a single period. Four years. "

Rossi:" One. "

Muñoz:" I hope that just one. "

Gomez:" I hope that one. "

Latorre:" They themselves would conclude that a period is enough. "

- What was the best government



Concertación?

Ottone:" The 20 years of successful coalition is a continuum. And if you ask me what was nearest me, the answer is more obvious in my case, that of Ricardo Lagos.

Tironi, "I can not answer that. "

Hardy:" There were four good governance, but there was a turning point in Lagos and Bachelet deepening with. "

Micco:" The founding. The Don Patricio Aylwin.

Rossi: "Everyone has had its lights and gray areas."

Muñoz: "The Lagos and Bachelet.

Gómez:" Each had its time. "

Latorre: "Everyone has a stamp".

- The coalition must make room for the wayward to come back?

Ottone: "It is not a problem to be solved by the coalition, if not themselves, if can reconnect with the ideas we have proposed. "

Tironi, "Yes, you should do it."

Hardy: "You must return the founding actors of the spirit of the center-left Concertación, and I do not mean discolaje."

Micco: "Anyone who is willing to participate in our discussions and deliberations free and democratic and to accept its results, is entitled to be in the Coalition."

Rossi: "Yes, contributions are not left over."

Muñoz: "Coordination has to define a policy of broad partnership with all sectors of center and left the country."

Gomez: "I do not know if the rogue, because they produced a rupture, but have to make room for those who have differing views within the coalition or outside the cluster.

Latorre: "While associating their work only to personal projects, not worth insisting on being close to them."
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