Javier Torres Vindas
sociology and philosophy student UCR
In my case PAC voted for president, Frente Amplio-waiting for deputies Eva Carazo achieved a seat, and no council level, for who was who? In these lines I will show my opinion as a citizen who has felt, thought and acted according to the social place where I belong in this electoral process.
Past Day E -07 February 2010 - are tossed cards: Laura Chinchilla is president of Costa Rica, the National Liberation Party, PLN, has won 23 seats, Libertarian Movement ML-9, Party Social Christian Unity PUSC-6, Accessibility without Exclusion Party-GO-4 and Citizens' Action Party-PAC-12, other small parties only one each. In the district still do not know. But it is plausible that given the territorial behavior of Laura's win at the provincial level and the organizational level it has wiped the PLN and consolidate its local power from 2010 to 2016 as established at that level.
The big loser in this fair was not left in its various protests and partisan groups, especially Frente Amplio. Ni-Alliance coalition Patriot PAC-PIN. Neither the PAC itself. Nor is the procedural democratic system. The big loser is the public that has finally come to be settled in its political culture subjectivity.
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the tactical and strategic contradictions of who we are opposed to the new national development style of openness, under the aegis of neoliberal ideology and the power bloc-financial groups, media, political parties, etc. - who have managed to close their ranks in key moments of his old-Referendum in 2007 and 2010 elections - Second, the political capacity of the right of Costa Rica in its paternalistic authoritarian style that has characterized it since the late nineteenth century with the dominance of the passions . The big winner of these fair election was the right of the power bloc, which won at the polls and won the subjectivity and citizens. Explain.
in the polls was the big winner right at the power in his two events favor: PLN and ML fundamentally, without forgetting the PUCS. They express the goals and interests of the class features of the financial sector, telecommunications, exporters, etc. Whose survival is embedded in their alliances with these parties. In fact the amount of seats for the three groups for the 2010-2014 Legislature account for 38 votes-mechanical majority-who defend the interests of the bloc in power and make concessions to the public colonized, scholarships, pensions for the elderly, bonds, etc.-but without affecting the productive-distributive model established with the FTA with the U.S. and launched since 2009.
These sectors in 2000 learned the lesson of trying to legitimize their interests against other sectors and competitive organizational capacity. Since then sought ways to make a success of their projects positioned at key allies of the institutional system and regaining public subjectivity. His two previous hits were re-elected Arias and win the 2007 Referendum. In both cases with margins of just 2%. However, Chinchilla strengthen their capacity for colonization the legitimacy of their project. Laura won with 47% of the electorate and more importantly with 22% lead over his nearest competitor. How is this done? How does Laura accreditation an advantage of 22%? How does break the socio-political bias of past elections and the referendum? As I see are four-not the only weight-factors.
First, taking advantage of the dismantling of unrest and steadily increasing polarization of the population to the neoliberal model between 2000-2007. Indeed, the day of victory of the SI in 2007, the campaign manager and president Alfredo Volio Oscar Arias called to turn the page, to forget. Their effectiveness was such that the media, parties and other actors were careful to mention this situation and it was not a campaign issue. That is, the right to be understood that the electorate do forget the Referendum, that was a different kind of scaffolding-partisan election held every four years.
This misreading and / or self-imposed leads to a second factor. Self-cancellation of the CAP as a reference for those sectors and actors that are structured around the NW in 2007 and reached 48%. In October he announced to the vice presidential candidate, which had been favored SI in 2007, which adds to the stand as a centrist party and the conciliator. Thus gave the campaign strategy and could not convince the electorate that continuity was a matter which the ML took on their behalf. Such continuity is the invisibility of the electorate has not seen or not wanted to see that several of the newly elected deputies were part of PLN Arias government, who refused to make his deputation, for example, Fabio Molina-
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PAC established its position of a party that collected the discomfort of NO severely beaten and broken since October 2007, had been forced at different venues and media to discuss this reference and demonstrate to the electorate the internal contradictions of which supported the FTA PLN and PLN that did not support and continuity of becoming president Laura. In addition to the radical ideology of ML. And of impotence in which hobbled institutions has fallen to the interests of the right, who in October 2007 not only won the FTA, but the strategic and tactical initiative in leading this country.
As Naomi Klein describes in The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism "with the application of various techniques of colliding populations and economies of the countries conquered by this method and radical measures are taken before the population to recover from such a strategy. After October 2007, the level of disruption and shock of the opposition sectors in recent years has taken some institutional trenches and from there to advance its projects and goals. The Legislative Assembly in 2008-2009 operated under the logic of the mechanical majority, for example. In addition, his latest conquest has been the Ombudsman in 2007 had been belligerent against the government's intentions. Next, plausibly, is the Comptroller General of the Republic more than a headache has given the government. Not forgetting his progress in Crucitas and Sardinal, which have been the most publicized areas of struggle but not unique.
The third factor becomes paper-based surveys in this campaign, on three levels. First, it gave birth to a competitor and decoy for the voters: the ML. Whose radical thinking and direction for the country allowed the PLN power as a moderate party much committed to the needs of the poorest, obscuring its objectives mimetics and leaving the PAC as an enemy slowed and always behind the campaign advanced . Second, the PAC committed to beg on the banks loans to finance his campaign, because the surveys are presented as an objective indicator of such financing. Third, the invalidity of the presence of minority parties had to meet with nails money for the millionaire fair election, that is, that invisibility tactic shows a dialog with no dissent. However, the trip was the smartest of the small parties for their media campaign focused on a single medium: Extra group and won four seats.
The fourth factor that explains a double win: at the polls and in political culture. Which is central to who we should pay more attention because it operates in the subjective structures. Arises from the re-colonization effective and efficient and the subjectivity of the voters. Of land they had lost the groups in power since 1995-at least, until 2007.
right for decades had built a political culture passive electioneering, patronage. A citizenship that he believed in procedural democracy, which felt like a party, which was co-opted in their efforts and to channel their discomfort institutionally and sublimated their frustrations on the national team, for example.
The re-colonization of this subjectivity was a political and ideological goal of the first order for the bloc in power; who in 2000 had understood the centrality of the reconquista. First two formulas used paternalistic leadership: Abel Pacheco and the myth of American peace Oscar Arias Sanchez, whom rely on institutional disruption achieved by the judiciary re-election. He has now opted for gender progressivism with Laura Chinchilla has been your best bet (47% of the electorate and with 22% advantage)
Referendum in 2007 with the bet with all this project subjective. Amid the war of ideas won a strategic victory, dismantling and disappoint the public, re-establish its functional minority pro-systemic. Months after the referendum was an atmosphere of mourning and grief. Subject that served to recover the subjective field, taking the recovery effort.
first mass media with programs like: Dancing for a dream, singing in a dream, chinam and only in December 2009 championship bull riding with an air-nationalists among Ticos techniques, faced with national heroes: the chirriche, the misbehavior, hurricane, etc. All this in a phallocentric and chauvinistic.
Recovering a subjective space that used the PLN to consider a cultural campaign instead of squares ideological public with parades, jugglers, artists, music, dance, theater. That is, culture as political. The aesthetics and politics in the words of Walter Benjamin. Space in 2007 was widely appropriated by the movement of NO with The Huntress of No, eg
Secondly, this same trend of recovery of subjectivity by the right, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal developed an advertising campaign where it said vote is cute! Voting is pura vida! This is the exercise of suffrage is an aesthetic act and identity of good citizenship, good-ported more than a political-ideological ejericio.
In summary, in the 2010 elections in Costa Rica we have a big winner: a right to various branches and interests that you have understood that only right alliance can operate and control their natural home is to colonize the subjectivity of citizenship. To this must continue to invest time, energy and money directly or indirectly to recreate the style of political culture that he has brought more fruit: a passive citizenry and happy to participate in four years as models for the world citizens, a citizenship that channels his discomfort and that institutional form is alienanda by media disinformation, citizens who represses his passions or at least channeled into other areas of anti-football symbolic, choteo, gossip, etc, and a citizenry that is as natural harbor and destroy all dissent. Recall Vote is cute!
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