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The lure of participatory democracy

2021-08-03T03:25:10.256Z


The investiture of the people as attorney general responds to the agitation and propaganda strategy of a caudillismo dazzled by the nationalist liturgy and historical reductionism


An advertisement invites the population to participate in the popular consultation.Moisés Pablo / CUARTOSCURO

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  • López Obrador takes a trial to the past to the polls

Andrés Manuel López Obrador's self-aggrandizement in his morning press conferences and popular consultations is the consequence of his own pretenses and of the Mexican imperial presidency, evident in the propensity for the concentration of power and discretion, enemies of institutionalization and consensus. Considering himself the helmsman of the oppressed people, he subjected him this Sunday to a demagogic confrontation with the Constitution and the laws, which his confessed admirer, the president of the Supreme Court, Arturo Zaldívar, validated with reservations.

The alleged conversion of the court into a political instrument indicates the president's sustained course towards criminal populism.

The consultation, in which only 7% of the census participated, questioned the advisability of prosecuting the last five presidents.

The wording of the fundamental question had to be modified because it generated constitutionality problems by linking political and ethical responsibilities with criminal ones.

The seizure of social outrage as an alibi, the simplicity of confronting it with criminals of corruption was a constant since Lázaro Cárdenas, in the 1930s, and during the transition from the PRI dictatorship to democracy, formally concluded with the alternation of 2000.

If criminal proceedings are carried out against previous administrations, the prosecution of ex-governors and operators involved in episodes of criminality, massive human rights violations and mafia privatizations, will provide the Tabasco with ammunition to continue attributing national misfortunes to the neoliberal robbery of the defendants.

The investiture of the people as attorney general responds to the agitation and propaganda strategy of a caudillismo enchanted by the nationalist liturgy and historical reductionism.

López Obrador's personal decency in a nation eaten away by indecency made him president, with a sufficient parliamentary majority to generate results in the face of an opposition incapable of articulating alternatives and decimated by transfuguism and a criminal record.

But plebiscite boasts and authoritarianisms disguised as participatory democracy will not solve Mexico's worst recession since the 1930s, nor will they heal the plague of corruption and insecurity;

even fewer will rescue the poor and unprotected.

The country needs a statesman committed to the general interests, rather than a vigilante who succeeds in most of the complaints, but is overwhelming when approaching them with nineteenth-century formulas and initiatives that generate entanglements, artificiality and new frustrations.

Nor can the consultation be considered an embryonic Truth Commission.

If it were, Troy would burn on all four sides, including the rage sheltered in the government coalition.

Source: elparis

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