Pablo Hiriart
The Mexican Senate approved the dissolution of the Judicial Power as an autonomous power, guarantor of legality, and containment of abuses of authority.
The three powers will be deposited in a single person whose political group will not let go of power for the simple reason that they are not Democrats—they never were.
The ruling group, without listening, ignored the arguments of the opposition, the academics, the bar associations, the international organizations of judges, the judiciary workers and officials, the business partners, the UN rapporteur, the most prestigious global media, the business organizations, and the Church.
Mexico enters a long authoritarian night, with unipersonal and absolute command, the product of a coup d’état.
Now, the ruling group has all the instruments to perpetuate itself in power.
They will stay in power whether the economy fails or not, whether they win or lose in the elections, and whether Mexico is isolated or not from the community of countries with separation of powers. They will not leave.
We did not get to this situation by democratic means.
The majority of the National Electoral Institute (INE) board members and the magistrates of the Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) gave Morena and allies a qualified majority that the voters did not give them.
INE board members and TEPJF magistrates, with the honorable exception of Janine Otálora, followed the dictates of the Ministry of the Interior and gave the ruling bloc 74 percent of the seats when they obtained 55 percent of the votes.
Without this mockery of the law, Morena and allies would not have had a qualified majority in the Chamber of Deputies. They would not have passed, not even close, the reform package that dissolves the Judicial Power.
With that artificial, fictitious majority, the product of a mockery of the law by board members and magistrates who complied with the instructions of the Secretary of the Interior, Morena was able to pass the reform that concentrates the three branches of government in a single person.
It was not the will of the people. The artificial majority was built with the illegal decision of a small group of factious people without considering the result of the vote.
Now, as José Carreño Carlón pointed out yesterday with excellent clarity in El Universal, “Instead of the three classic powers of our system, the iron triangle of despotism will be closed. Placed at the vertex of whoever exercises the supreme Executive Power, there will be, on one side, prosecutors, judges, magistrates, and Justices controlled by the ruling party. On the other side, the police forces -military with the National Guard integrated to the Army”.
The coup was consummated on Tuesday night in the Senate, where the government resorted to methods typical of dictatorships to obtain two-thirds of the votes: terror and lies in order to bend.
The father of the MC senator for Campeche was taken out of his house at dawn to be taken to the police station. The National Guard kept his house surrounded “for his safety”.
The coordinator of the Morena senators, Adán Augusto López, once and ten times said that neither Senator Barreda nor his father were being held. “I just talked to him; he is here in Mexico City,” he lied.
Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, one of López Obrador’s fiercest detractors, was brought to his knees with judicial files. His son, Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez, was the 86th senator who, with his vote, gave the two-thirds to approve the reform.
Consummatum est, published yesterday by La Jornada in its mini-editorial. And it is true.
It is worth highlighting the courageous performance of the senators who did not allow themselves to be intimidated. Their determination is admirable despite the threats and the dangers to which they are and will continue to be exposed.
Among the Morena senators, there are mafiosi and facilitators of criminal groups. Opposition legislators argued and voted against them.
PRI senator Paloma Sanchez will return to Sinaloa with a ‘cowbell’ around her neck because she voted against the state government’s will, whose ties with organized crime are there for all to see.
The life of Lilly Tellez, a member of the Sonora PAN, and her fellow countryman Manlio Fabio Beltrones, who does not even have a bench to support him, or Imelda Margarita Sanmiguel, from the narco-dominated state of Tamaulipas, are at enormous risk.
And so did all those who did not succumb to the prosecutors’ extortion. They voted against the dissolution of the Judicial Branch.
Senators from parties with long, short, or no tails to be trodden on resisted. The Republic first.
They acted as in Almafuerte’s verses: “Do not give up, not even if defeated, do not feel like a slave, not even if a slave…”.
Exemplary. The coup, however, is consummated.
The initiatives that follow consist of the disappearance of autonomous bodies, guarantors of individual rights, fair competition in the economy, and elections.
Our rights and liberties are now in the hands of one person after a coup d’état facilitated by INE board members and magistrates of the TEPJF and perpetrated on Tuesday night with the participation of governors and state prosecutors.
There was no armed rebellion, but in a few years, when we see the effects of what happened this Tuesday in the Senate, September 10 will be the commemorative date of the day Mexico lost its democracy.
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