Chile 2010: Pumpkin, squash
The games popular Chilean usually ended my childhood - still do? - With gentle and urgent call of the elders: "pumpkin, squash, each pa 'su casa. Again I remember seeing the contradictions, disagreements and dispersion culminating in the defeat for the Coalition of the first round. Announces an inevitable rout before the final defeat more than likely this coming January 17, a project of alliance and union seems to have exhausted its founding purposes.
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The need to infuse new life into the ailing campaign of Eduardo Frei took the bizarre proposal to change the faces of the top leadership of the parties that support him. The classic case of selling the sofa. The decision of the chair for support for his squire, the general secretary of the Socialist Party Camilo Escalona, against the insidious demands of the Coalition candidate, Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei to tender their resignation to the order, or even rejection of the Secretary himself general of the Christian Democrats to follow the example of the resigning general secretaries of the PPD and the PRSD, as a last emergency to get some support from the enfant terrible of Chilean politics, Marco Enriquez, shows that already sounded the hour of "every man for himself I can. " Can they?
Half surrendered the other half to reject the self-immolation demonstrate two things: First, defeat is inevitable Frei. It was from the beginning, when Democrats in the most ancient tradition as Patricio Aylwin and Andres Zaldivar harshly criticized him early in the campaign for his inappropriate comments of a candidate. And Marco Enriquez quit the PS to launch his own candidacy, opening in the already moribund channel device of the Coalition. Not surprisingly, despite the president's popularity at all endorsable to third parties by their very personal nature. Symptom, without doubt, the decline of his support group.
As the lethal effect of this mismatch permeate than imagined the voter, he would miss the armor imaginable a wealth of new voters to Frei. The likely result: abstention and blank votes in many marquistas, Piñera turn to others and a tactical withdrawal to Frei in the least. But even if the terror right - that sounds like a fairy and children - have an effect so colossal as to defeat the successful entrepreneur in the Alliance for Change, the hosts will be too Concertacion beaten and dejected to face the next four years crisis with minimal strength. Would be a real Pyrrhic victory.
I, however, that the political elite of the Coalition parties have begun the withdrawal to its different positions. The Socialists are settling down to take a role in the future and preparing its opposition aggionamento for 2014. They will have a formidable competitor in Marco Enriquez, who will launch the takeover of the Chilean democratic left and the final unseat PS. Pretending to assume the leadership of the opposition and preparing his candidacy for 2014, when there will be yet reached forty years of life and you have behind the dual experience of defeat and a transition from one period to the head of the opposition .
The DPP, which got a great vote will be taken away to finish by the prominence of the PS, the main victim of this electoral process. And the DC paying the bill very rounded up the pieces. Remain in no man's land: far from Pinera, who should have accompanied, saving his starring role in the Chilean political center and left, which should have been separated long ago not to assume the burden of two decade rule.
The moment arrived. Pumpkin, squash, each pa 'home.
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