www.ft.com
Ok, but how long will it be until the "other left-wingers" and even some of the socialists side with the right-wing groups about even the most minor of points, and are suddenly "center-right at best" to the communists?
If you take as a basis that the Chilean right-wing alliance won the presidency (54%) and nearly 40% of the popular vote in parliament at the last general election, 20% in the constitutional convention (together with the context that the Chilean right has lost a significant number of local elections in the last year or two) is consistent with claiming it has taken a beating.
You're right, no party wants to give up unilateral powers, but being the biggest fish in in a pond of all small fish is still a huge advantage. The center-right coalition list nearly half their seats, but the center-left lost actually 50% of their seats. Let's look at the numbers.
...26 of whom ran under the explicitly left-wing List of the People.
www.wsj.com
They aren't really that explicitly left-wing, at least in the sense that left-wing people want them to be. When their website talks about the importance of market solutions, and deconcentrating national governmental powers back to the regions, and strengthening families, it can sound a bit Republican-y at times. They advocate for socialism in places, but so do mainstream American politicians, who I'm told constantly are all either right-wing or far-right.
You seem to have a bad habit of blindly accepting things written behind paywalls.There's always room for things to change, but if you want to know how politically active indigenous groups do in Latin America, look at the MAS party in Bolivia and the EZLN in Mexico.
Though if you're wondering about the politics of the independents, they're mostly anti-party leftists.
Chile Elects Left-Leaning Assembly to Replace Dictatorship-Era Constitution
The assembly will draft a new constitution for Chile that is expected to pave the way for a significant increase in social spending.
The right lost hard.
EDIT: Oh, and the mayor of Santiago went from the center-right party to the Communist party.
It's the year 2021. The election results are available to me. The party websites describing their positions are available to me. There is no situation where it's right to just accept someone is more educated about it because all the information is like 4 clicks away. Do your own research. Primary sources are readily available. Google has a translate button.
Yes. Morales is done, his party is trying to get him to just disappear already while he messes up the few places he still has any influence. He was always self-important and power hungry, and current events should be clearly exposing that for you. MAS is better without him, Bolivia is better without him, and the crisis there was majority his fault personally. So yes.
Yeah... no.
That's a far far cry from 'dictator'. Morales is walking free in his country while the people who accused him are in jail, so no, I don't think history is going to condemn him outside of being egotistical.
No right-wing politician in the US has advocated for socialism in any meaningful sense. And I hate to tell you this, but decentralisation and defederalisation aren't inherently right or left-wing positions.
What of them? I didn't count them on either side, because there's plainly not enough information. But yeah, the committed left-wingers massively outnumber the committed right-wingers in the delegation.
I do not believe that is true. Best I can tell, that was added for this election.
As a whole, I would agree with you, but they aren't a whole. It's a list of independents with potentially different ideas who formed a loose coalition in order to access the ballots. Lista del Pueblo candidates are more likely left than right, sure, but it's wrong to consider them a uniform voting block like a political party. And it's exceptionally one-sided analysis to declare every one of them left wing, and every other independent candidate as neutral.
Walking free while his opposition is imprisoned? You're right, no dictator has ever been in that position, and nobody in that position has ever been frowned upon by history. The man rescinded an endorsement when a politician in his party showed hesitance to prosecute Morales' political opponents. Not to mention he fled the country the instant he didn't have power. These are not the behaviors of a good man with a clean conscience.
I hate to tell you this, but none of those things are inherently right or left-wing positions either.
Oh yes, when his political opponent wanted to imprison him unjustly after a violent coup threw him out of the office he won fair and square. Trying to paint him as a dictator is incredibly disingenuous. Just what the US State Department wants.
I don't base my opinions on the desires of the US state department. You shouldn't either.
