With the 2024 federal elections on the horizon, the efforts of the ruling party to carry out its electoral reform at any cost are intensifying. However, this reform still has to face two major obstacles: legal institutions, which still reflect a degree of autonomy, and civil society, which has shown an impressive ability to organize along with a certain rejection of any attempt to materialize a democratic regression.
How does the citizenry seek to face the electoral reform? Undoubtedly, the November demonstrations had a considerable impact in preventing a qualified majority in the Congress of the Union, and thus stopping the constitutional reform that the president intended to carry out. For this reason, and given the long list of challenges that will undoubtedly be presented against “Plan B”, civil society will seek to take to the streets again on Sunday the 26th of this month, with the goal of demonstrating their dissent.
However, it is worth mentioning that the mobilization of civil society is a tool that should not be limited to sporadic marches. The action of the citizenry must be constant, organized and firm. In the absence of concrete leadership or a comprehensive reform of political parties, it will be the task of civil society to fill this void. We have to consummate a national front that is iron, fervent, plural, and unified in its fundamental goal: to defend our democracy and our political freedom.
The Mexico of today must look towards the future, towards an inclusive future, a future with more freedoms, with more rights, and with more consensus. We must not look for the answer to our problems in the past, that past of exclusion, that past of despotism, arbitrariness, and impositions.
The change that Mexico wants is in the citizens, it is our duty to join forces and take the initiative. We cannot depend only on the benevolence of our political class. We must never again fight only when they have us on the ropes. Let’s march, let’s fight, but not just for one occasion, nor for a single cause. Let’s let the rulers know our desires, let’s show them that solidarity and that fervor in every minute of every day. Every moment we let go will be one that could have made a difference in the future. The opportunity is now, to strike when the iron is hot!
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