The problem is that populist leaders and parties, while broadly accepting the rules of the democratic game, have a rhetoric that strains the pluralist component of democracy.
The advance of the far right in the European elections not only resonates in the region but may also become a driving force for the radicalization of the traditional right in Latin America.
Populists are popular, so it is necessary, more than ever, to listen to them and take them seriously, before this type of leadership becomes more popular than democracy itself.
Post-populism is determined by the tension of maintaining the political project and by the slow and imminent distancing of the leader operated by secondary leadership competing for the political center.
Religion has become an instrument to reconquer voters' faith, merging with populism to sanctify politics and transform the relationship between citizens and leaders.
Open Government, as the form of governance that seeks to deepen the role of citizens participating in public decision-making is known, is an alternative to the chronic threat to democracies.
