When Clara Brugada gained strength as a candidate for the Head of Government of CDMX, some eyebrows were raised in the capital’s real estate sector, where they feared another six years of lean times. In Sunday’s debate, the Morenista did more to scare them away.
Brugada needs the sectors that her party, on the one hand, or she, on the other, does not have. Hence, a first strange sign of a campaign that should go for those who think differently is that right on the day of the second debate the candidate gives an interview to The Day.
You talk to those you already have, and that’s it. Lack of confidence or lack of strategy? That was the preamble to her encounter with Santiago Taboada, an energetic candidate who managed to get the Morenista to continue talking about the issues that the PAN member raised in the post-debate.
The good side of that, of being on the agenda of the former mayor of Benito Juarez, is that few would notice that Clara, in the debate alone, got into trouble by making several references to the real estate issue.
Until now, it was cheap to use Mítikah, the monstrous development on a corner of the Benito Juárez and Coyoacán municipalities. She mentioned such a development to illustrate (omg with the advisors) that Taboada had made as many floors as six Mitikahs.
First of all, many people find it a source of pride (?) that such huge buildings are built in their city. It can even be said that there are those who presume that the skyline that we have today in Reforma was promoted in the capital’s times of López Obrador.
Secondly, in these types of developments, not only in Mítikah but in those that have emerged like mushrooms in the capital in this century, thousands of voters live. Thousands. Middle class families. The kind that needs to know that things are going to improve, not go backwards.
Hence, three, if you relaunch a narrative that more floors are a bad idea, or that they are all floors derived from corruption, or that, as they accuse you, you will stop the works because there is no water, “because that’s how you did it in Iztapalapa ”, or because “that’s how you are”, the issue reverts to you.
Let’s return to Mitikah.
One of the serious problems of that place is that the town was abandoned by Morena: Xoco claims that they have not complied with accompanying them in their defense against the voracious developers.
Just today, Tuesday, in Barcelona, Spain, the N+ investigation team will receive the prestigious Ortega y Gasset for a story of the resistance of the people of Xoco that, as seen in the report but has been known for some time, now has a thread of water.
In a debate to talk about the city’s water challenges, your advisors tell you to blame Taboada for building six Mítikahs… take it easy that the PAN member – who didn’t even make that development – is not very well read, something we know from his time in the Culture Commission, which if not, reminds you live and in full color of the aforementioned report, that the current capital government did not bring the developers to heel, and that the water of Xoco dried up.
Finally, two things: we must promote developments without allowing corruption; that is, nothing about just banning buildings, nothing about closing everything again and then viriguamos, like five years ago; and two, yes to more floors, to take advantage of urban infrastructure.
In one of those, far from Xoco, Clara made Santiago more popular: look, they say he is going to make six Mítikahs.
