Chile chose law and order
The result of the elections in Chile to form a constituent assembly, charged with drafting the new constitution, has been received with an almost rare unanimity of surprise and astonishment by the European and American media addicted to the "woke" tendency, that is to say, the new progressivism. They are astonished by the overwhelming triumph of the Republican Party of José Antonio Kast, Gabriel Boric's defeated rival in the presidential elections. They describe it as nothing short of an incredible surprise that the PR, alternately described as ultra-right and Pinochettist, obtained 35.42% of the votes, which together with the 21.07% of the centre-right Chile Seguro coalition, represents 34 of the 51 seats at stake, more than the three-fifths needed to draft the nation's new basic law with its stamp. The groupings in Unity for Chile, which support the current president Boric, were left with 28.57% and 16 councillors, a figure so insufficient that it does not even reach the two-fifths that would allow the left the right to veto. The remaining seat will go to the Mapuche people, whose central role in the first attempt to form a constituent assembly, rejected by the Chilean people in the corresponding referendum, has been reduced to a minimum.
In the light of recent events in Chile and throughout the American continent in recent years, these results are quite logical and speak volumes about the Chilean people's capacity for judgement and analysis. During the year that Boric has been in power, the country has registered a considerable increase in insecurity, precisely in the country that boasted of being the least plagued by this scourge that plagues a good part of Latin American countries.
The sudden emergence of drug trafficking and the consequent escalation of criminality, together with the usual "magnanimity" of the left when it comes to decreeing pardons for criminals, after disavowing the police forces in charge of protecting citizens, has been the main trigger for this radical change in the electorate's preferences. Add to this the sharp increase in irregular immigration, with its consequent impact on life in the less favoured areas of towns and cities, and the main causes of this electoral turnaround become quite clear.
As if that were not enough, the cultivated Chilean people have also had enough samples in nearby countries to know where revolutions such as the so-called Bolivarian one are leading. And, incidentally, they have been able to reflect on the supposedly spontaneous social outbursts that devastated Chile itself, as well as Colombia and Bolivia, and which led to radical and even revolutionary changes, to which the Sao Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group, formed and designed precisely to fan the flame of neo-communist revolutionary leftism in Latin America, are no strangers.
The pleas of President Gabriel Boric
Chilean President Gabriel Boric is to be commended for his rectification in asking PR leader José Antonio Kast "not to make the same mistake we did". Boric thus recognised that drafting a constitution for only half of the country, as he himself did in a first attempt, can only lead to the pendulum swing that has occurred now. And that is because Chile, fortunately, is still a country of deep democratic convictions, which fortunately also allow it to change leaders when they make mistakes. This is not the case of Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela, whose regimes demonstrate every day that, once a revolution is established, it is irreversible and impossible to overthrow their corresponding dictatorships by subjugated peoples, impoverished and subjected to implacable tyrannies.
Indeed, Kast and all the centre-right and ultra-conservative councillors would make the same mistake as Boric if they were to write a Constitution only for the other half of Chile. No matter how overwhelming the majority they win, they will have to engage in in-depth dialogue with the defeated left and with the Mapuche people in order to produce a fundamental text that frames and protects the rights of all.
What there seems to be no doubt about is that the vast majority of the Chilean people want law and order for their country. Two concepts that leftism has traditionally tried to ridicule or assimilate exclusively to right-wing dictatorships. Obviously, to replace the rule of democratic law and order with the revolutionary decrees of the supposedly all-embracing will of the people. Of course, these results make it quite clear that Chileans still aspire to a stable political framework, which allows them to develop their capacities in freedom, and therefore to prosper individually and collectively.
As usual, the "woke" media will be eager to disqualify a priori the work of the new Chilean constituents, as they did when Giorgia Meloni became Prime Minister of Italy, describing it unequivocally as the return of fascism to Italy. In Chile, it will be important that heads like that of President Boric, who is showing that he is maturing rapidly as he encounters reality, dialogue and make agreements with the whole of the right wing, branded as Pinochettist by the ultra-left, which resolves any controversy with this recourse, so similar to that of Francoist or fascist, a joker still in vogue on this side of the Atlantic.