Societies always look for a leader to follow, the figure of a savior who can do anything, the Latin American caudillo that we have so well rooted. That is why we cannot stop talking about Juárez or Madero, that is why the new leaders, those who aspire to come to power, have to come remembering and paraphrasing those historical icons.
The very long electoral campaign that began almost a year ago ended, when our president decided, (as he always does), to start moving his pieces and arrange everything for the election.. Claudia Sheinbaum, then mayor of Mexico City, walked around the States every weekend, in what was already clearly a campaign. This forced the opposition to also act and move its few and unpresentable chips. Thus, the poor citizens had to endure a campaign that lasted almost a year, although the official times were three months, we endured the famous survey in which the only Mexican who did not know the results was Marcelo Ebrard, we witnessed how the PAN and the PRI shared seats and governorships as if they were loot to consolidate their famous alliance. Thus we arrived at June 2 and the National Regeneration Movement swept the polls, Claudia Sheinbaum has won with a margin of more than 30 million votes for her or for the president or for his movement, which has been the same.
As an ordinary citizen, you would think that everything is over, the elections are finally over. Now the endless goodbye tour of a president obsessed with power will come and with finding a place in the history of Mexico.
But, the usual politicians are the politicians of now.
We are seeing a arrogant opposition that does not see beyond its personal interests. They have not yet realized that elections are won with votes, and that Andrés Manuel López Obrador is an expert in that game, since he has been playing for more than 20 years. The next day, Marko Cortés and Alejandro Moreno had to present their resignation, not only as an act of shame, but of respect for the people who still believed in their projects. Instead, they have become more entrenched in power and have begun to plan a campaign about alleged fraud. Something that reminds us of 2006 with the same ridiculous and undemocratic overtones. The difference is that in 2006 the margin of victory was much closer than now.
The allegations will come, that it was a State election, the interventionism, the irregularities. All of this is and will have to be pointed out and denounced. But the opposition has to look beyond its ambitions for power, recover the structure, engage in politics, question why over six years, with more than 80 deaths a day, with the management of the pandemic that was disastrous, with a president who has violated the law since the morning we do not know how many times, why with all that, they were not able to articulate a speech in front of that Government. Understand that your failure goes beyond a report that was poorly counted or if the president spoke too much at a public event.
I hope they return to politics, to listen to Mexicans, to lower the level of arrogance that has led them to this because Mexico is going to need them for the next six years.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Mexico saw democracy as an impossible dream, very far from where we are today. Results managed by the State, a number of frauds and tricks in the polling stations on voting day, presidential candidates murdered in the middle of the campaign, wills bought and opponents silenced. It was day to day. In the midst of all this, the figure of Vicente Fox was born, a wealthy rancher, with boots and a horse who brought us democracy and kicked out the PRI from Los Pinos, as he promised so many times during the campaign. All Mexican social and leftist struggles were equally surprised when democracy arrived from the right on horseback and from Guanajuato. But the long-awaited change did not come as expected, since Mexicans assigned the president the task of transforming a country as complex as it was extensive.
In that six-year term, a new leader was born (politically speaking), this yes from the left, this yes with all the answers, except that his campaign lasted more than 12 years. It was difficult for him to come to power.
Today Mexico has made great progress in its young democracy. The new president has great challenges ahead, perhaps the greatest and where everyone has failed is the most basic, being able to guarantee Mexicans the basic right to life, it also has the slogan of creating a new Government, one far from López Obrador, taking Mexico to a new stage , where we finally bury the past. And today the position has an invaluable opportunity to be democrats and not make a fool of themselves, I hope they take advantage of it.
#Ghosts #search #power
