Ballot box for Mayors and Councilmembers in the municipal elections in Chile on October 26, 2008. Photo: Richard Espinoza. CC BY 3.0. Some rights reserved.
(Summary text of the intervention)
"For us, from our experience, municipalism consists of exercising local power by building and recovering sovereignty, the power that has been taken away from citizens. And then produce a new way of living in the city. But why is it important to raise the central problem of municipalism in terms of building local power? Because if there is real local power, what’s done from the municipal level, from city hall, from the institutional space is replicated in the streets, in social movements, in the neighborhood. It’s this relationship between the institutional and the non-institutional that we must keep in mind as it is key to social and political progress.
