Those who supported the option of "No" to the continuity Country Email List of the regime were going to form the center-left coalition called Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia, which would govern the country during the slow democratic transition. Those who Country Email List supported the "Yes" vote became a resistance force, protecting the legacy of the dictatorship, its economic, political and social system, a model symbolized, above all, by the 1980 Constitution. Country Email List From the position of trench and defense of the Pinochet legacy, it is not.
Surprising that the first results of the right in presidential elections (1989 and 1993) were remarkably meager. In fact, in both contests the center-left won in the first round, Country Email List with more than 50% of the votes. Shaken by these poor results, the right began a progressive programmatic adaptation, bringing their positions closer to those of the Concertación. This programmatic Country Email List moderation paid off, and in the 1999 elections it managed to force a second round. Finally, the great leap in the history of the right came with the presidential candidacy of Sebastián Piñera in 2009, in which, for the first time in 50 years, he came to power through elections. Perhaps not coincidentally, Piñera had been one of the few referents of Country Email List the right that had joined the.
No” option in 1988 and, with his victory, it seemed to consolidate the distance Country Email List of the right from Pinochet history. However, some sectors continued to claim the ideology of the Pinochet regime, although more cautious in making explicit references to the dictatorship. In fact, Country Email List it would not be until 2014 and 2018 that the traditional right-wing coalition parties, In 2016, Kast resigned from the UDI, considering that the party had moved away from its "founding project" . At that time, as an independent politician, he openly celebrated the Pinochet character of his project. For example, he declared that if Pinochet were alive he would vote for him and that "separating Country Email List the issue of human rights.