As highlighted in various forums communication, the departure of Evelyn Matthei and Andrew Allamand Senate to Sebastian Piñera Cabinet can influence a reversal of bills that are part of the so-called value-based agenda. " Matthei will sponsor the project on therapeutic abortion, which occurred from the Upper House with Senator PS Fulvio Rossi. Without Allamand in the legislature, the project life together, that would govern family life for same-sex couples, has a difficult survival.
That the fate of bills in these areas rely so heavily on just two appointments underscores how these are secondary issues in the framework of the priorities of the country's political system. The book value appears to be a cause to embrace leaders and lawmakers as a filler, such as electoral nod to a small fraction of the population if one of these is decisive or to kill time until something better arises. It is clear that the country's presidential system, made of a ministry will provide access to a platform far greater resonance than a parliamentary seat. The campaign promises in this regard also impose greater obligations, ignore it has not shown cause major costs.
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country's recent history is difficult to argue that the book value has ever tipping the balance in an election. The proposals of the candidates at this level simply have no part of the debate and campaigns. If present, they are in the form of posters on a variety colorinches idyllic or ads your responsibility to dispose of without consequences (the word fault or breach of commitments Piñera in Puerto Viejo, the ANFP and Magellan have had a much higher than the ambiguity and apathy with which the government and the ruling party have met their commitments on equality between people of different sexual orientations). Our country is very different in this regard States States, where the use of value-laden dilemmas contributed in part to the reelection of George W. Bush in 2004.
Clearly, the successor of Andrew senaturía Allamand in the 14 th district, Carlos Larraín, president of RN and supernumerary of Opus Dei, no bid for the project of his predecessor on conjugal union. This is predictable, but has not been emphasized enough that the arrival of Larrain's chair Allamand evidence that parties within the value-based agenda does not create a divide. It is something that leaders can not agree without consequences, which is typical of any topic that is not considered relevant.
As for regulations that promote better rights for the citizens regarding their sexual and family life, the only successful has been the divorce law sponsored by the then DC Members Mariana Aylwin and Ignacio Walker, whose project was entered 1995 and had a long pipeline to go into effect until 2004, almost a decade later. At that time there was broad consensus on the anachronism of not regulating divorce and hypocritical nature of the nullity loophole.
Assuming that no major initiatives valued incentives for policymakers and those that thrive do so because only that there is a broad consensus around them, it is expected that these materials remain outside the political agenda until it is assayed a strong social consensus around them or change important determinants of the Chilean political system and our electoral system or the high prevalence of the executive over the legislature. Meanwhile, debates and discussions will continue on, but not much real change.
