Thursday, November 6, 2008

Salutatoryaddress Of Elementary Level

"UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE OR LEGITIMATE POWER FOR POWER?


In the last municipal elections, has been laid bare as our Chilean democracy is nothing more than a mere cardboard scenery.
The electoral verdict is only one, tell all and it is true. But is this the best demonstration that a country enjoys a healthy democratic system, after which the assumption is undeniable legitimacy to positions in the pyramid of power?
It would therefore be good to ask under what conditions the Chileans voted today.
First, a review of how these applications come claiming to represent the population living in the territories where they are seeking. Do they come perhaps from local issues or social contingency, regional or national?
Are the current political parties direct reflection of the social processes of the country? "Our legislation protects
representation and formation of new political figures, social trends or minorities in the country?
Are there any guarantees of public debate and forum for the diversity of sectors and political expressions of the country, including the newly forming social minority during election campaigns?
And finally, is there equality before the law for the financing of political campaigns? Responses fall
its own weight. Who would have doubts over the health brief review of the legal and political framework in which our democracy today is Chile? Because
Can we now say that Chileans voted on conscience and on an equal footing, that we respect and ensure equal access to voter information, there is a system that ensures the representation of new political and social references, which there is full participation in the selection process for candidates?
is, in these conditions, what is universal suffrage in Chile today the culmination of a responsible internal democratic process in which each of us, prefers the option that represents best collective project which is identified?
So makes sense that our legislation requiring the country's citizens to decide by vote, by one or another representative of the national policy, when all evidence in Chile live in an undemocratic system?
Some hard figures expressed muted rebellion of large sections of the population of the country against a political landscape increasingly arid and devoid of basic freedoms. In the last municipal elections, 17% of voters abstained, and 8% of the votes were invalid or blank. Ie, 25% of voters failed to rule. But most worrying
of all is that 70% of the country's youth between 18 and 30 years, has decided to drop out voluntarily from participating in elections, the supreme act of democracy to a nation.
Against this, the answer is succinct. The new generations do not believe in the current political system. Are 2 million young people who do not vote in Chile.
words today in Chile there are 10 million people age meet, and that about 50% were denied, one way or another, to participate in elections in the country. Faced with this scenario
dropout and national disillusionment is not rash to assert that the assumption of elected positions in Chile today is illegitimate, since only promotes the power for power. Veronica

Adrian

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