Webinar Frontal Trust: “The constituent path a two-voice analysis after the election”

Webinar online / 19-05-2021
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Max Colodro: “One of the key events that took place last weekend is that we started to live and witness with all clarity the expression of the social unrest at the political level.”

Natalia González: “It is quite undeniable that the President has played a very important role in the results we had, but it would be very petty to say that he is the only culprit of what happened. I attribute responsibility to the parties of my sector as well.”

Last Tuesday, May 19, Frontal Trust, the investment fund manager specializing in alternative assets, held its tenth webinar, entitled “The Constituent Route: A Two-Voice Analysis After the Elections.” In the occasion participated Max Colodro, a political analyst, and Director of the Master in Political Communication and Public Affairs of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and Natalia González, political columnist and Director of Legal and Legislative Affairs for Libertad y Desarrollo, who had a conversation with Cony Spicic, a journalist of the radio station Infinita, on the outcome of the elections of constituents and the scenarios that open up in the drafting of the new Constitution.

Natalia González offered two diagnoses on the political right. The first one, the analyst said, is that this political sector hasn’t read or listen well to the public yet, so it does not just need to keep on track, but it has to deepen it with ideas that seem to be closer to the adversary rather than their own. The other diagnosis is the opposite; that path has led us to blur ourselves and not to have a distinct political offer.

Max Colodro pointed out that “one of the key events that occurred last weekend is that we began to live and witness with all clarity the expression of the social outbreak at the political level. The clearest signal deals with the fact that the two major coalitions that defined the political system from 90 onwards, were the most castigated and beaten by the public.”

The political analyst added that there are many errors and complications on the right. “The fundamental problem is that they have not been able to understand or read the Chile that has existed since 2010. After the alternation in power, the right has not understood what it meant for a very important sector, or rather for the entire Chilean center-left in Chile, to see the right winning an election.” He added that “here we can observe an attempt and the logic of demolition. The left always felt as an imposed inheritance the country built from the year 90 and that it had to reluctantly accept. Sebastián Piñera is one of the main responsible for not understanding it. In right-wing parties too, there has been an inability to understand what this means. They did not understand when Senator Quintana started talking about the “backhoe” 10 years ago.”

Natalia González pointed out that it is quite undeniable that the President has played a very important role in the results we had. “It would be very petty to say that it he the only culprit of what happened. I attribute responsibility on to the parties in my sector. If at some point you intended to step aside of the government with your ideas, you had everything to do it, but the step aside by resorting to the more left-wing ideas, moving away from the rule of law. Although this change has much to do with the President’s attitude of not knowing how to lose.”

What the election of constituents is expressing very clearly is this apparent move to more left positions. “There is a very fundamental criticism to the political system. The reason why the two traditional large coalitions performed so badly has to deal mainly with the fact that the reading they are making is to move to more left-wing positions to capture those segments of the most disruptive electorate,” says Colodro.

The event lasted for just over an hour, keeping the more than 170 attendees very interested.