Claudia Sheinbaum yesterday he pronounced his maiden speech as chairwoman with an epic journey through the history of a nation, whose original cultures gave the world cocoa and corn, who built monumental pyramids and understood the stars, as well as life and death as part of a constant change that animated the spirit Mexican proud of his past. But there it got stuck. The new head of the Mexican State took the 44 minutes that lasted a speech that should have been eternaland that turned expendablewith nothing memorable to remember except the apology to his mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Sheinbaum began her message to a nation that wanted to hear her with interest and curiosity, measured in the millions of people who followed the inauguration through YouTube channels, with a eulogy for her predecessor. There were 402 sweet words, which he praised once again in the middle of his message and which He concluded by walking towards where he was to thank him, hug him and wish him the best.. One cycle ended and another began, he had said at the end of his words. However, reaffirming doubts about whether she will be able to shake off his shadow, she showed that her emotional relationship with him is intrinsic.
Nobody really expected groundbreaking content. There was no reason to think about it. There was also no justification for a demarcation and showing autonomy and independence, as some had requested for months. Sheinbaum owes his entire political career to López Obradorwith whom he ideologically shares his political project. But what would have been expected of her was for her to paint the route to the future, programmatically based on what was established during the last six years, and to tell us where she saw the country at the end of her government. He didn’t do it.
The “second floor of the fourth transformation” has remained a continuous line of what López Obrador started, which makes his project look more like a stop along the way to refuel than the construction of a building that increases its size and scope. . Perhaps the only thing that having that size showed is turning Tula, “the most polluted city in the country… into the cleanest city,” which was a campaign promise, through the most ambitious circular economy project in the world.
He did not explain the concept, but it refers to breaking with a linear pattern that is based on mass production and disposable products, born in globalization, for a new model of production and consumption that eliminates waste and pollution, which seeks circulation of products at their highest value, while regenerating nature. But this avant-garde idea collides with another part of his energy project, based on fossil fuels, in accordance with López Obrador’s postulates.
The Tula project is the only thing that he outlined in his inaugural speech as something advanced, because the rest was a summary of his campaign promises, López Obrador’s daily sermons, and the 100 commitments that he repeated in the afternoon at the Zócalo, which included her opening text as president. The beginning, development and conclusion in the architecture of the message was as if the team of the former presidential spokesperson – now his coordinator of advisors -, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, had written it for him. She did not have the freshness of the new generation that has accompanied her since her government in Mexico City, nor a vision of the country, not disruptive, nor that of a modern and advanced left that Mexico does need. She did not speak to the general audience but to her own, thereby speaking to herself and to the main recipient of her words, López Obrador.
Sheinbaum missed a great opportunity to tell the country in her first speech as president where she wanted to take it. It lacked a common thread that would excite everyone and encourage that part of society full of wounds due to López Obrador’s violence, which wants national reconciliation and for the president to listen to everyone without distinction or condition. That fabric did not exist, so his reiteration of where he intends to take the Obrador movement – the culmination and consolidation of what his political boss did -, regardless of what the rest of the Mexicans who dissent from the project think, should not be surprise to no one, nor will they be able to say they were deceived in the future.
The president was honest and consistent. She does not intend to deceive anyone and make them believe that she will be different from what she offered in her public life and in the campaign. She is appreciated, although she may be rude, as is the treatment of the president of the Supreme Court, Norma Piña, sitting next to her, who was reminded that the popular vote will throw them out of the Judiciary, denying that this action will generate more injustice and It will politicize justice, as has been denounced in Mexico and the world.
In his vision there is no heterogeneous country. What is not homogeneous does not count for her, as was seen when she promised that she would govern for everyone, as a president should do, even reinforcing her saying in semiotics – she dressed in white, without anything brown, and approved the new image institutional in the same neutral and clean color -, but by not giving room either in attitude or in word to those ideas that are not Obradoristas, it reflected its intolerance, at the same time as being exclusive for not building bridges to the opposition for dialogue, asking them instead to reflect with a cool head on the achievements achieved by López Obrador.
He speech had the design of the morningwith truths, half truths, inaccuracies and lieswho had a ray of light when he shouted “Long live Mexico!” that added to each and everyone, but that stumbled again in the dark with the proclaims “Long live the fourth transformation!”that with a partisan harangue, not that of a head of state canceled inclusion and political healing.
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