Ricardo Pascoe Pierce
The mobilizations against the AMLO-Sheinbaum proposal to demolish the Judiciary disprove the idea that the people voted in their favor. Polls also disprove the presidential duo’s proposal. Moreover, so does the community of domestic and foreign investors and businessmen. It should be noted that international organizations, world media, and several governments, as well as Mexican society, have expressed their rejection of the measure.
The official party, perceiving that it does not have the necessary votes for its ratification in the Senate of the Republic, is now dedicated to changing the essential mathematical formulation, reducing the number of votes required for its approval. Obviously, imposing such a change in the threshold of votes needed would be illegal. Still, given that lies, corruption, and foul play predominate in Morena’s political work, they are capable of trying any way they can.
During the recent elections, broad social sectors expressed themselves in the streets throughout the Republic. Broad sectors are also mobilizing today, but their social and economic spectrum has broadened. Today, the judiciary workers have mobilized as never before. Students from hundreds of universities are mobilizing in solidarity with the workers and rejecting the proposed judicial reform.
The rejection of the reform touches sensitive fibers of society because it is felt that the government wants to diminish their capacity to defend themselves by eliminating its legal instruments. In the end, resistance to the changes stems from a natural distrust of Mexican society toward the government’s intentions and pretensions. Mistrust and suspicion reign.
It is curious that at the moment of Morena’s most significant electoral victory and the president’s supposedly very high popularity, society’s distrust of the government reigns. As much as Morena fights to bring people to the streets to defend the cause of reform, the opposition completely overshadows it. The supposed consensus on judicial reform obviously does not exist.
The conflict and dissent around the reform uncover this government’s feet of clay. It does not have the solidity and social and political support it wants society to think it has. It has not generated a social movement of support for the proposal. The students who cheered Batres and Ortiz in front of the Supreme Court were a pathetically small contingent.
The show of hands in the capital’s Zócalo was an act of party faithful, with their salaries and social programs at the forefront. At the same time that this show of hands was taking place, on the other side of the Zócalo, thousands of students and workers repudiated the reform with independence of criteria and will. The scene was clear: on one side were the enslaved serfs, and on the other side were free men and women with the willpower to demand respect for their rights.
Where is that overpowering official party that feels entitled to impose its criteria, its opinion, and its model of the Republic on the country without consulting anyone or considering the diversity of the views and criteria that Mexico has? They think, and now we see that they are wrong, that Mexico is a country with only one opinion: that of AMLO-Sheinbaum.
But they are wrong. What distinguishes Mexico today is that it is a diverse and complex country. That is why INE and the Electoral Tribunal’s misdeed of granting Morena overrepresentation in Congress betrayed the country’s true character. They wanted to impose uniqueness over multiplicity. Shame on both electoral bodies, whose members, individually, should know they are traitors to the nation’s best interests.
All this conflict has unexpectedly opened a deep rift between society and the party government. It shows that the bureaucratic and sclerotic elephant that is the State under Morena’s command is made of clay feet, without the strength it pretends to have and the spirit of fully representing the nation.
Even if it manages to impose its reform in the Senate, this regime will collapse sooner rather than later. This is demonstrated by the social and political mobilization, which has revealed Morena’s feet of clay. Today, in Mexico, the voice and the initiative are in the streets.
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