Las ambivalencias de la derecha en la gestión de la Primavera Chilena de 2019-2020

Abstract

This article addresses the management of the Chilean social outbreak or spring by the government examining critically the existence in Chile of two rights: hard liners which would explain the reminiscences of the authoritarian past when President Piñera declared the state of emergency on October 19th, 2019 vs. soft liners, more renewed and moderate. Framing the analysis in the sociology of political crises developed by Michel Dobry, it shows rather, on the one hand, the existence of a right with a unified position regarding the defense of public order and security and, on the other hand, the existence of different sensibilities, sometimes crossed, some more protective of the core identity (conservative in the moral field, subsidiary in terms of the role attributed to the State in the economy) than others (more liberal and solidary). It is argued that these sensibilities, expressed in particular in the position of the coalition in favor or against a new Constitution, do not reflect a polarization around authoritarianism/democracy cleavage but are partly influenced by the logics of certain situations that constrain the perceptions, calculations and tactics of the actors.