The inexistence of democracy in Chile

Abstract

The author argues that the key element that defines the existence of a democratic political system is the fact that the Constitution and the laws are the product of the majority will of the people, expressed in assemblies that represent them through a vote that has really the same value. He argues that in present Chile it is clear that the Constitution is not the product of the will of the majority because it was imposed by the dictatorship in a spurious plebiscite, and its contents constitute an authoritarian regime. The author along with developing these ideas, questions how the Concertación governments defined that the transition to democracy had been accomplished.