Federico Reyes Heroles
The worrying thing is not the perversity of the wicked but the indifference of the good ones.
Martin Luther King
Perversion goes one step ahead, imagining something that an ordinary mind would not do. However, when one imagines perversion in others, most respond with skepticism. You’re exaggerating! But after five years, it is clear that AMLO and those behind him plan every move on his board with remarkable malice.
The “mañanera” seemed like an unprecedented exercise in accountability. But, in a short time, it became clear that this space destroyed the normal coming and going of information. By imposing the agenda and making its reproduction obligatory, the media were forced to follow it. Questions sown to suit, with coldly calculated answers, permeated the news day from morning to night. The ferocious criticisms of the President to the left and right displaced other content. Five years of non-stop blasts. During the 2024 campaign, the media tried to defend themselves by arguing that equivalent time was granted to the candidates, the female candidates for that matter. That without counting the time that the “mañaneras” occupied the newscasts with political hits and that, in spite of all the admonitions, they never ceased. An efficient and perverse act of meddling.
Afterward, the strategy of omission in the designations came to light. The vacancies of the commissioners of the National Institute of Access to Information (INAI) were skipped. The objective: to paralyze that body. The same happened with the magistrates of the Electoral Tribunal. The Senate simply did not fulfill its obligation. Of the seven, five remained, three of which show an alignment. Finally, a few days ago, and after the Mexican Human Rights Commission filed an injunction that caused a stay by a federal judge, the members of the Superior Chamber agreed to go for the sixth magistrate, in accordance with the provisions of the Organic Law of that Power. They did not go for the seventh; why? It is very simple: in case of a tie -three against three- in the presidential qualification, they could opt for the casting vote. The curious thing is that now the injured party is Claudia Sheinbaum. Everything is calculated to prevent her from being able to ” draw her line”.
When analyzing the appointments of the future cabinet, the ostensible interference of the President is clear. The healthy renewal is broken. Last week, AMLO blessed his Secretary of the Interior to lead Morena, another padlock. End of discussion. But few perversities have been as evident as the intention of guaranteeing a qualified majority. With it, they seek to modify the Constitution and impose the package announced on February 5 by AMLO. The bombshell includes establishing a Judiciary by-election. Hours after Election Day, and without the district count having begun, the Secretary of the Interior herself was already talking in the ” mañanera” about qualified majorities. Decades to get the elections out of the control of the Government, and they came back with the stroke of a pen.
That is why the pronouncement of the Observatorio Ciudadano is so relevant, signed by very prominent jurists, former board members of the National Electoral Institute (INE), and former magistrates of the Electoral Tribunal, in which it is recalled that the Supreme Court unanimously pronounced on the matter in an action of unconstitutionality: “Proportional representation is the principle of allocation of seats by means of which each party or coalition is attributed a number of seats proportional to the number of votes cast in its favor”. Curiously, the appeal was promoted by AMLO. The principle of proportional representation acts “as a guarantor of political pluralism” in the legislative bodies. The “exhortation” of the Observatory to the current board members of the INE and magistrates of the Tribunal, exposes the “technical coup d’état” of which it was spoken from the government. They had it in mind, pure perversion.
The democratic future of 130 million is in the hands of 16 Mexicans.
Perverse.
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