(Mastahcheef, my character is a Liberale, his talk of Republicanism and Democracy was part of his hyberbole of politics my Chilean characters always have.)
Alas, the stalemate... This is why the Communists should have gotten their own party.
((Well, I don't think they should be separated yet. Socialists and communists were members of the same parties, they just represented different tendencies (the Republicanos are made of reactionaries and social traitors, we are made of socialists and radical socialists :O). IRL they split after the Russian revolution, IIRC.))
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