I defended the republic against de Conti alongside Fuentes and Haakhalenin, and I'll keep on defending it - for the sake of a Chile where the state does not stage political purges, ban parties, or give the president unlimited power.
Viva republica!
My goverment has reduced political freedoms, but we still allow different ideologies to exist. The reactionaries asked me for the enthronement of a prince, and I put it to vote, then the conservatives and the liberales voted against it and succeeded. If this government would be totalitarian, I wouldn't have even listened to the liberales or the reactionaries. Hell, there wouldn't even be reactionaries or liberals.
But your government would've been composed only of orthodox communists and not even moderate socialists would have a say. I may have great power, but I limit it to some extent and still use the congress to vote on bills because I have not abandoned the idea of democracy entirely. You, instead, only use democracy in name.
Hadn't I banned the communists and the FNT, they would've eventually banned everyone else and then each other. You know it, deep inside, that your revolution would've fallen apart by inside struggles. Back then you couldn't even set up a coalition together!
There are many differences between Roseno's regime and mine. And the key one is that this regime isn't only mine, it's of the people. I might step off one day, but there will be many successors! There are many smart and ambitious individuals in congress and even the government, General Hidalgo for instance, that I know will some day succeed me and I haven't and will not do anything to stop them.