2018年是拉美国家的大选年,总体来看,拉美国家的选举都是在宪法框架内进行,政府在更迭的同时也保持了政治上的基本稳定。目前,左翼政党仍然在委内瑞拉、厄瓜多尔、乌拉圭、玻利维亚和尼加拉瓜等中小国家执政,再加上2018年12月左翼开始执政的墨西哥,将拉美政治格局概括为从“左退右进”到“左右共治”的新局面更为准确,而不只是“左退右进”了。在大选年后,很多拉美国家的政策会面临调整,在出现左右政党轮替的国家会更加明显,但无论是左翼还是右翼执政,都不会改变国家政治发展的基本走向。2019年,仍然有不少国家举行大选,通过关注选举来研究这些国家的政治变化,包括各种政治力量的对比和变化情况以及发展趋势,观察和研究各国在“左退右进”与“左右共治”时代的政策变化。
2018 was a general election year for Latin American countries,with elections in major Latin American countries such as Cuba,Venezuela,Mexico,Colombia and Brazil,and while there have been assassinations of candidates in some countries such as Mexico and Brazil,but in general,elections in Latin American countries have been conducted within a constitutional framework,The change of government has also maintained the basic political stability. At present,left-wing parties are still in power in small and medium-sized countries such as Venezuela,Ecuador,Uruguay,Bolivia and Nicaragua,and Mexico,which the left came to power in December 2018,has summed up the Latin American political landscape as a new situation of “Left and right co-governance”,rather than “left back and right advance”. In the wake of the election year,policies in many Latin American countries will face adjustment,especially in countries where the rotation of party-shaped parties is more pronounced,but neither the left nor the right to govern will change the basic direction of the country’s political development. In the 2019,a number of countries still will held general elections,we can study the political changes in those countries by focusing on the elections,including the contrast and changes of various political forces and trends,and to observe and study the policy changes of countries in the era of “left-right co-governance”.