I still think that the AD/M-19 did not have to dissolve as it did had it better assessed how a party of its size should have behaved under the old rules.
They were never, however, going to match the zenith of their popularity in the ANC elections.
]]>Those “strategic errors” you refer to that the M-19 made were endogenous to the electoral system then in use. The M-19 got thoroughly socialized, and I do not mean in the ideological sense. I mean, they got co-opted by the personalizing and factionalizing incentives of the system.
That isn’t likely to happen to the PDA, partly because the change of the electoral system and the absence of the old bipartism create lots of new alliance opportunities for programmatic parties.
You are right about the Dirty War parallel. very sloppy journalism there.
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