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Andrés Manuel López Obrador opened the way to the presidency of Mexico thanks to his obstinate and critical verb. It is beginning to lose it thanks to its obstinate and critical verb. The last barrage of surveys shows a significant drop in their approval levels. Although they remain positive, on average between 55 and 61% in their favor, there are ten or 15 points lower than those exhibited three or four months ago. Of course it has impacted the wear and tear of the Government exercise, it usually happens here and in China (well, maybe in China less). But in the recent fall of the presidential bonds, the perception of a Lopez Obrador's closure weighs on issues sensitive to opinion, such as public safety, health or feminicides. For a time here poor or people ceased to be the most frequent words in the president's speech; They were displaced by neoliberal and conservative. A worrying turn because it reveals a president on the defensive, someone who prioritizes a disposition to be against an entity (conservatives) and not in favor of a cause (the poor). López Obrador's obsession with his adversaries leads him to make them omnipresent in all communication, which indicates the weight they have acquired in their occupations and concerns.
The truth is that the sayings, expressions and, sometimes, silences of the president have caused discomfort and have been interpreted as acts of pride or clumsiness, even between circles that until now had been empathic with his Government or his person.
The president has made his arch nemesis a reference for all evils and setbacks. Conservatism is behind criticism in the national or foreign press; manipulate protest groups whether they are ecological, feminist or labor; feed the adverse comments that arise on social networks. Any sign of disagreement or disagreement ends up being spurious because it is inspired by a conservative ideology or the actions of its agents. This Sunday, in his hometown, Macuspana, he described as being imbued with conservatism to the attendees of a popular rally who complained of not having received the support presumed by the president.
Certainly the opposition to López Obrador acts on all possible fronts. And no doubt there are many interests that try to maintain their privileges. The problem arises when this perspective becomes the only window to see the world, because it ends up making the rest of reality invisible.
The case of medicines and femicides show the political bill that the president is charging this fixation with the conservatives. In his morning press conference López Obrador has reiterated that the shortage of medicines and the protests of the sick are the result of the manipulation of neoliberals and the kicking of the corrupt who refuse to lose their business. And it may be partly, but what public opinion observes, for example, are parents of children with terminal cancer, desperate for treatment interruption. That the “adverse” press carries its images on the front page to the president's dismay, does not mean that they are not real cases, which somehow escapes the perception of the president, something rare in him.
For the rest, your government's health strategy is not shameful, beyond the setbacks left by a radical change in the supply system. Every week, there is more evidence of the billionaire embezzlement that previous administrations caused from the health sector, particularly in the acquisition of medicines. López Obrador instructed to clean the supplier scheme and the drug distribution system at the root, which caused the shortage of some items and in certain regions. Something to be expected. It was also expected that the opposition would spread these imbalances and display them as a sign of the failure of the Mexican president's public health policy. But this one, instead of recognizing the momentary victims, attending to them immediately and thus removing the banners from their adversaries, disdained their importance and accused them of being subjected to manipulation. In other words, he threw them into the arms of the opposition.
The lousy crisis management turned a mere disagreement, perfectly rectifiable, into an expensive dent to the presidential image. Something similar happened with feminicides. A few weeks ago, a vague comment by the president on the matter was interpreted as a disdain for the fight for gender equity and provoked a barrage of criticism in social networks and media, particularly in the areas that are adverse. Instead of stepping up and embracing this claim, he questioned how these groups express their disagreement and accused them of being an instrument of the conservatives. The incrimination was gasoline at the stake. The El Financiero survey, published on Tuesday, notes that 82% of the population considers the government's response to femicides to be bad or very bad. The cruel murders of Ingrid Escamilla and the Fatima girl a few weeks ago and the president's warm reaction, outraged public opinion and made López Obrador's position inexplicable. On Tuesday he reported that the raffle tickets for the plane will go on sale next Monday. Just on March 9, the date indicated for “a day without women,” which was interpreted as a provocation. 24 hours later López Obrador corrected himself: no problem, he said, we passed tickets for Tuesday, I just didn't remember his event. That said, the president is not seeing.
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