President López Obrador conceives June 2 like this:
“It is going to be very important because Sunday is more than an election; it is a referendum, it is a plebiscite, it is a consultation. It is not just choosing the authorities, choosing the party, no, it is choosing the nation project that we want…”.
Not precisely: the national project is reflected in the Constitution and article 81 specifies and limits:
The election of the president will be direct and in the terms provided by the electoral law. The office of president of the United Mexican States may be revoked under the terms established in this Constitution.
If it were a question of modifying the nation’s project, with a popular consultation involved, a constituent congress should be convened.
If his words are taken seriously, Sunday’s day will not be to elect the next president but to re-elect him (or not).
The nonsense came out in another of his illegal interferences in the electoral process, for which he has been subject to “precautionary measures” of salvo and spit by the electoral authorities.
Also asked:
“Do we want the country to continue being like before, of a small group, of a minority that deceived because there was no democracy, it was an oligarchy with a façade of democracy, because the people were not taken into account? Or do we want it to be ( that) an authentic, true democracy is truly established in Mexico, which is the government of the people, for the people and with the people…”
In March 2006 and in the middle of the electoral process, the then president thought of saying:
“Mexico should not go back; “You don’t change horses in the middle of the river,” which not only cost him López Obrador saying, “Shut up, Chachalaca!”, but also the Electoral Court ruling:
“’This superior court does not overlook that the analyzed statements of the President of the Republic, Vicente Fox, constituted a risk to the validity of the election that, if its possible influence had not been weakened by the various concurrent acts and circumstances, “They could have represented a greater element to consider them decisive for the final result…”.
That metaphorical and timid interference, at the initiative of López Obradorism, led to draconian and sanctimonious changes to the laws that AMLO should respect.
Two months ago, he accumulated 330 complaints for intervening in the process and openly supporting his candidate: of the total files, 37 were in the “substantiation stage”, 127 reached the Specialized Regional Chamber of the Court and 61 were discarded, but it was confirmed that their conduct has violated the principles of impartiality, neutrality and equity.
However, for practical purposes neither the INE nor the Court have the means to sanction the president, so his violations remain in total impunity.
What is imposed in everyone’s sight is that of “don’t tell me that the law is the law” because “my moral and political authority is above…”.
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