Chile’s Rising Anti-Establishment Powerbroker
Franco Parisi’s Partido de la Gente helped advance the government’s flagship economic bill. Which path will he follow going forward?
The newest powerbroker in Chilean politics is an anti-establishment party that defines itself as ni facho ni comunacho (slang for “neither fascist nor communist”) and is the latest political movement in Latin America to ride an anti-incumbent wave to challenge established party systems. The Partido de la Gente (PDG) finished third in the last two presidential elections, with charismatic economist Franco Parisi leveraging this strong support on social media to get 19% of the vote last November. The PDG’s support in Congress has been critical as Chile’s right-wing President José...
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