Evopoli: A Comparative Analysis

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Things must change so that everything remains the same
Using similar Grandpa tricks, the grandson Felipe intended to became a political postcard of an emerging new Chilean right that tries to look different, not conservative, almost "progressive," and vaguely reformist. Today even a child knows that "things must change so that everything remains the same" (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard, 1958).

To achieve his goal of being elected congressman in 2014, Kast Sommerhoff, founded in 2012, EvoPoli, his own party defined as an independent center-right alternative. EvoPoli was born when the decay and free fall of the UDI began. The once strongest party in the country, now sunk in corruption scandals, bribes, kickbacks and money stolen

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