Pedro Medellín. El Tiempo
La clase política se la jugó a fondo. El miedo que a unos le producía que la propuesta de eliminar el clientelismo terminara con una revocatoria del Congreso, y a otros que el rescate de la legalidad acabara bringing them to international courts forced them to move all their electoral strength. They had to put it all, trying to reach the half plus one that will ensure victory in the first round. But they could not. Although his contribution was crucial to finish 3'600 .000 votes making the difference between Mockus and Santos, who, with the support of other sectors of opinion, reached 6'758 .000 votes, proclaimed him loose the first round winner in presidential elections .
seems that everything is accomplished. That the second round was a notarization requirement to ratify the president of Santos. But all is not said. Not only because Santos will start the processing of payments to make the barons electoral U, before knowing what the tolls that will "stick." Also because the results depend on what the Green Party.
First, because the greens are not a media bubble, nor are the useful idiots to legitimize the regime, as stated Piedad Cordoba. The Green Party is a political reality that got twice the vote of Radical Change and the Democratic Pole and the triple of the Conservative Party. And those votes were not induced by the polls, but the decision to fight a political establishment permeated shortcuts and mafias. No other instrument
political persuasion, the Green Party faced all political establishment and forced him to play fully. How much will it cost each vote? How should move to ensure the "logistics" election which the ruling party has mounted in these eight years?
Second, we must recognize the strategic errors. Do you not realize that going to an interview in which a follower of someone identified as Santos and Carlos Castaño advisor makes a trap to Mockus to fit into the story of Uribe's extradition. Do not know what it entails and what went behind these interviewers?
need to connect the political discourse with the program body, particularly in the areas of tax and security. It is also indispensable to understand that moving the border towns with their own regional economic dynamics. And Colombians do not buy petrol on the Venezuelan side because they are cheaters or evaders, but because in the border areas in terms of trade are governed by the most favorable price.
And third, it should be clear that the large difference between the vote and Santos Mockus seeking alliances weakens as the main criterion to capture a volume of additional votes to ensure the election in the second round. The challenge is to go to the concrete. Moving from the general invocation of "life is sacred," "public resources, sacred resources" and "democratic legitimacy" as principles of government, policy instruments through which this appeal is going to become a reality, government action on all fronts.
The real challenge for the second round is able to offer citizens a policy proposal that, besides making them feel represented, offered a package that makes them feel confident that those responsible will do the job well and under needed.
The key is to not lose perspective. It should be clear that not only is a campaign but a political project which is betting on building a new kind of politics as the only way to have a better government and better society.
Meanwhile, the establishment will have to make another "little effort, in money and kind, if he wants to win in the second round, because not everything is finished.
Source. Newspaper El Tiempo. June 01/2010 click here to get the link
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