“Voting is the only way to make a change in a democracy.” Christine Todd Whitman
On Sunday, July 2, 2000, it dawned a little cloudy in Guadalajara, at that time I lived there, I voted in a special box by Francisco Labastida, I arrived mid-morning, the polling place was located near Ávila Camacho Avenue, the queue was huge, I lined up, I think it took me three hours to get to the voting table. In the anonymity that the second largest city in the country offered me, formed, I listened to the people who moved with me, Jalisco was governed by the PAN and the enthusiasm was felt to vote for Vicente Fox, as a Sinaloan, convinced of the sense of my vote for Labastida, although he knew the risk of losing, he kept hope. You already know the end.
in round numbers 70 years of PRI government had elapsed, the 20th century said goodbye, democratic elections, Federal Electoral Institute structured, strong, irrefutable. For society it was a shock, learning and the inauguration of democratic normality; participate to win or lose, active citizenship and respect for the will.
A week ago I went to the capital city to “Dialogues for Mexico”, Senator Zamora, with whom I maintain a constant political conversation, invited me and more than that he encouraged me to attend, sometimes it happens to me that I only get tied up and only loose myself in the possibility of doing something, I appreciate his insistence, I checked two things, which I can go up to the capital and that the PRI it is right to be -calm down everyone, it is democratically expressed and necessary-.
Beatriz Paredes, Claudia Ruiz Massieu, Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, Enrique de la Madrid, Esteban Villegas, Migue Ángel Riquelme, Alejandro Murat and José Ángel Gurría showed the government we have from their perspective. Brilliant José Ángel Gurría, I explained to myself the 15 years he was Secretary General of the OECD, if I were president I would be the main Advisor, serious, pragmatic, informed, sensitive, responsible. Exceptional Mexican, listening to him is learning. Beatriz and Claudia, two of eight, in times of celebrating equality and access to the universal vote, well represented the strength of women’s political thought, both with specific weight, intelligence and character.
Esteban Villegas deserves a special mention, when I heard him and saw him moving on stage I couldn’t help but think that his profile is a must-have reference to represent the Alianza con Unidos y Va por México. There they have “what and how” of whoever is a candidate – man or woman – who is missing, just!
I had the opportunity to treat people who meet in groups called civil society, in practical terms I will tell you that when I hear civil society I think of it as a political party and vice versa, for me, the militants of a political party are society civil society organized around an idea, a political one, of course. They are ways of naming, as everyone feels comfortable.
The basis is citizenship, and the purpose? Make it full by exercising the right to vote!
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The 2000 election showed us the way, since then PAN 2006, PRI 2012 and Morena 2018 are a clear example of the value of voting in a democracy. 2024 has a logic that precedes it. It indicates that the change of party in the executive branch is possible. Just vote and make it happen. Only those who vote have reason to exist in a democracy.
Postscript
They say there were reports, we will have to read what they said. In Ahome justice for Libraries, it is an essential public policy in Culture, Education, Social Development and even Security. I hope they analyze it and solve it.
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