Blog 1. Why do you think voting is important?
Hello everyone, I hope you find yourselves very well. There is no doubt that to vote makes us the main character of the democratic system, since it allows the people to freely express their will at the polls. It is evident that the evolution of democracy in our country and in the world through universal suffrage has been a tool to maintain the legal order. If the system does not work as an effective tool and if the people perceive that their needs are not covered, they will in some way express this to the authorities. In my opinion, what has harmed us the most in the democratic process in Chile is the Constitution of 1980, which became a true "straitjacket" in relation to the changes that our country needed in these forty years and that has led to have a major social crisis such as the social outbreak that occurred on October 18th , 2019. In these demonstrations, the discontent of the people with the neoliberal economic model was expressed, the social and economic inequal...