The very probable electoral result of the struggle for power does not allow us to glimpse the political consequence or determine how possible it will be to reestablish a minimum of understanding to stop the transition from polarization to disagreement. For now, this fight leaves issues, pending issues and problems exposed and exposed, as well as actors and political styles that reveal a dangerous degree of rot in an atmosphere that smells of gunpowder.
Certainly, it is impressive to see the struggle for power live and in full color, but one issue cannot be ignored: politics is being taken to its limit, to the point where violence appears and threatens to take its place. Calling themselves contrary and different, the competing sides complement each other in the work of destroying the foundations of a fragile and defective democracy. Careful.
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Absurdly, the events surrounding the electoral campaign draw more attention than the campaign itself because they reveal the struggle for power without clothing or disguise.
Of course, among these other events, the investigation opened by the Judiciary into the performance of four former collaborators of the former Minister President of the Court, Arturo Zaldívar, stands out, which could implicate him as allegedly responsible for violating the autonomy and independence of judges and magistrates. , in order to satisfy other interests.
An unusual investigation with a vice and a virtue. The vice: the moment it was leaked reveals a political intention. The virtue: the detailed exposition of the mechanisms and ways – certainly not new or extraordinary – of how the most opaque of the three Powers of the Union, the Judiciary, operates. If with the incident, the minister president, Norma Piña, wanted to showcase her predecessor, Arturo Zaldívar; inhibit the reform of that power; and hit Claudia Sheinbaum, she ended up exposing the x-ray of a pillar of the rule of law that has long been eaten away or infected by corruption.
Regardless of the fate of Arturo Zaldívar and Norma Piña, what is undeniable is the urgency of reviewing the Judicial Branch, although not necessarily in the terms proposed by the ruling party.
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Another eloquent picture of the struggle for power was carried out by two former Tamaulipas governors, determined to elevate political civility to the level of cynicism.
The now green tricolor, Eugenio Hernández, who has a protection against an extradition order and seeks a multi-member senatorship, found it funny to destroy the skull of a bovine with machetes, equating it with Cabeza de Vaca, which he blames for his imprisonment for almost six years . For the now purple albiazul, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, who has two arrest warrants and is a fugitive, the revocation of his registration as a candidate for multi-member deputy that would have assured him invaluable immunity seemed implausible.
These characters are not surprising, other issues are. The nomination of them as popular representatives. Claudia Sheinbaum’s greeting to Eugenio Hernández, who presumes to have her trust. Xóchitl Gálvez’s decision to appoint Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca as person in charge of security issues in his program. The leak to the complaining party of the draft resolution revoking the candidacy of García Cabeza de Vaca and causing pressure on Judge Janine Otálora. Judge Reyes Rodríguez’s vote against the repeal of that character’s candidacy.
That image underlines the desire for power, but erases the meaning of it.
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The reform initiatives to various laws in the legislative process show, once again, the government’s inability to learn from its own experience.
The procedural tricks have meant more than one setback for the government and its parliamentary faction, as well as the poor design and calculation of the reforms have turned more than one into a boomerang… and yet, the presidential desire to leave a legal framework The stature of his project makes Lopezzobradorism stumble over the same stone. Altering the wording of an approved opinion to submit it to the plenary session in the desired, but not agreed terms, exhibits the foolishness of removing legislative projects at any cost, even if their destiny is failure.
The coordinator of the Morena deputies, Ignacio Mier, attributes what happened to the opinion of the Pension Fund for Wellbeing to a human error, the truth is that it highlights the purpose not of building a country of laws, but laws to the measure of a desired and exclusive country.
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It remains to be noted the hesitant and fearful actions and decisions of the electoral counselors that detract from the legitimacy of the process and add reasons why, if the distance between the winning candidate and the defeated one is not wide on election day, the possibility of contest the election and play with its nullity.
There are many examples of how the electoral referee puts the whistle in his mouth without blowing it. The most delicate, the attitude towards the constant presidential intervention in the process. On twenty-six occasions he has done so and, with caution, the INE asks him to lower the morning conference on the case without warning him clearly and forcefully that such interference could generate a post-electoral conflict.
In the struggle for power and the exhaustion of politics, the INE council does not paint or whistle as would be desirable.
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The spectacle of politics begins to become wrestling in the context of a violent atmosphere. Careful.
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The alleged minister must be nervous. Her matter is in the hands of the same minister who will determine how to proceed with the case of Arturo Zaldívar. Oh baby girl!
