A Presidential Election Devoid of New Ideas
The Concertación (C)—the Concert of Parties for Democracy—the broad electoral coalition of center-left parties that defeated the military regime in Chile in a plebiscite called in 1987 by strongman Augusto Pinochet to determine whether or not he should remain in power, is in serious trouble of losing La Moneda in the December 13th elections as a result of three undeniable reasons: 1) the unappealing candidacy of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle its presidential hopeful 2) the erosion over time of a sustaining raison d’être for a coalition that has held power for two decades, a stretch longer than t…