FORM IS FUND. Because the law says so, it corresponds to the INE, and only to the INE, to carry out the promotion of the vote in the revocation of mandate exercises. But the promotions on radio, TV and social networks put the emphasis on the quality of the organization, not so much on the call to participate: “the consultation is going, and it is going well”. The referee is careful, all the spots have a call to participate; lukewarm if you will, but called at last. “Participate” says one of the official videos; “Think,” says another. The messages on the radio have a bit more forcefulness: “This April 10, make your decision, participate.” “This April 10, all opinions count. Participates”. When in the interview for the program Tragaluz they asked the president of the INE if he had to go out in April to the consultation, Lorenzo Córdova answered, words more, words less, “whoever wants to go out to vote, whoever does not want to go is in Your right”. In his Sunday videos, Councilor Córdova reiterates that “the revocation is going, and it is going very well” and then closes with discreet phrases such as “thank you for participating,” “exercise your citizen rights.” These messages are far from those pronounced at the beginning of the 2021 and 2018 voting days: “A massive and determined participation will be the best response of Mexican society…”; “I invite you to freely decide, by going to vote, the future of our country.” Obviously, the contexts were different. This institutional posture of President Córdova combines, in his own words, the ethics of responsibility with the ethics of conviction. Chapo!
TO EVERY ACTION CORRESPONDS A REACTION. The morenistas and their allies are desperate for the campaign implemented by the INE to spread the revocation. “They should promote instead of sanction”, “they seek to boycott the revocation of the mandate”, says Claudia Sheinbaum. “The INE is not doing the promotion it should,” reproaches licensed senator Félix Salgado. PT deputy Gerardo Fernández Noroña falsely accuses the INE of sabotage: “There are many complaints from those who are going to pick up their new voter ID in which they are informed that they will not be able to participate in the consultation on revocation.” The leader of Morena, Mario Delgado, says that this INE is not impartial nor does it have a democratic vocation “…it tries to censor the citizenry…and sabotage participatory democracy”, that is why he urges the legislators to process the electoral reform. Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, president of the Chamber of Deputies, directly asks Lorenzo Córdova to resign.
They say they are limited by the INE, but the constitutional prohibition was not imposed by the INE, it exists because it was promoted in 2007 by the hosts of the then opposition leader López Obrador to avoid interference by the PAN members in the fairness of the electoral contest. And it exists because the Morenista majority approved it in 2019, word for word, in the reform to constitutional article 35 that enables recall plebiscites. It also exists, because it was ratified in 2021, which issued the Federal Law on the matter. I am not saying it, Senator Germán Martínez said it shortly before resigning from Morena’s parliamentary group: “He is a coward and a mediocre person who blames the referee for the mistakes of his own team.”
LEGISLATIVE ALBAZO AND CELEBRATION. After 15 years of legislative omission, Morena and her allies in the Chamber of Deputies approved last Thursday in the dark and in record time a draft decree that reforms the General Law of Electoral Institutions and Procedures to specify the concept of government propaganda. In fact, this decree would serve to regulate Constitutional Art. 134, which prohibits the personalized promotion of public servants with national resources.
The initiative was presented and received that same day by deputy Sergio Gutiérrez Luna and approved eight hours later by the plenary session, without being discussed or ruled on in commissions, as required by due legislative process. The draft decree violates the principles of certainty and legality, since it violates Article 105 of the Constitution, which provides that electoral laws must be enacted and published at least 90 days before the electoral process begins and that during the same There may be fundamental legal changes. But the most serious and worrying fact is that it violates the principle of fairness in the electoral contest since it determines that “the expressions of public servants do not constitute government propaganda.” Apparently, this reform seeks to shield the officials of Morena and its legislators so that they can promote the exercise of revocation of mandate without being sanctioned by the INE, which, in truth, would be inconsequential, AMLO enjoys good approval and the citizens do not want let him go The truly aberrant thing is that, if approved in the Senate, this reform would have an impact on the upcoming electoral processes. Only taking into account this political calculation is that the excessive celebration in the tribune of the deputy Sergio Gutiérrez Luna is understood.
DEFINITIONS. The day Andrés Manuel López Obrador protested the position he holds as president of the United Mexican States, he became the president of all Mexicans, not just the 30 million who voted for him. López Obrador is my president. The best way I found to add to his government was to convert all my savings into Federation Treasury Certificates. If things go well for the president, things go well for Mexico and things go well for all of us. I don’t like the polarized and tense atmosphere that runs through the country, and that is largely due to AMLO’s style of governing; Despite this, I believe that the president must complete the period for which he was democratically elected. I will not give my opinion on April 10, in a recall consultation that was born vitiated from the beginning, but I agreed to participate by telling the opinions of those who decide to go out and demonstrate. We will count them all and we will count them well.
CANTINFLEAR. When Enrique Peña Nieto left power, there were 51.9 million poor people in Mexico. With figures from 2020, AMLO is the president of the 55 million Mexicans who live in poverty, the same as 16 Aztec billionaires. As a character from Mario Moreno Cantinflas said, “it is a mistake to want to finish off the rich, you have to finish off the poor first.”
SO MANY YEARS OF MARQUESA AND NOT KNOWING HOW TO MOVE THE FAN. We were all taken by surprise by the tone of Mexico’s statement to the members of the European Parliament calling them sheep, uninformed and interfering. It’s a prank? Has the Presidency account been hacked? It was not like that, AMLO himself acknowledged having participated in its writing. And it is that on Thursday the European Parliament had asked the Mexican authorities to guarantee the protection of journalists and human rights defenders; Mexico is, so far this century, the most dangerous place to practice journalism outside of an official war zone. Without freedom of expression, there is no democracy. AMLO, as head of state, is responsible for the security of the 45,000 people who, according to Inegi, work as journalists in Mexico. We do not want the Mexican State to investigate the deaths of its journalists, we want them not to be killed.
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