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he relaunch of the PAN has given much to talk about; The new motto is no coincidence, it marks the public alignment of the party with the international project of the extreme right (UD) and is already established as one of the electoral platforms that will host the candidates of that project (for more information, I leave you an article I wrote in December 2024 https://bit.ly/3J6Vuzw). It is interesting that the renewal did not renew any “leader” or “reference” of the party. The profiles are the same as in 2024, they said that the PAN was center-left.
What does it mean that the UD defends “homeland, family and freedom”? Much has already been written about the ideological similarity with Italian fascism, to the point of copying the motto, however, little has been said about what type of homeland, family and freedom the international UD movement to which the PAN adheres defends today. First, homeland, it is strange that the PAN defends it, after decades of saying that sovereignty was an outdated concept and having handed over natural resources to foreigners, undermining the integrity of the country. In fact, their political project now involves requesting foreign interventions in Mexico, we see the case of Lilly Téllez and Ricardo Salinas Pliego (to whom they completely opened the door by saying that they will include “citizen candidates”, and he will surely be their candidate in 2030). For them, as well as for the international UD (the Maga in the US, Meloni in Italy, Milei in Argentina, Vox in Spain, AfD in Germany and Reform UK in the United Kingdom), the homeland is the people who meet a certain racial profile, “white and of European descent.” The project is about defending the homeland against enemies, which in their understanding are all those they consider “undesirable.” It is essentially a project of racism that in the US and European countries is expressed as against all types of immigrants, minorities, different colors and preferences. That is what the PAN will defend, it joins that project.
Second, the family, a concept that the UD has taken hold of lately, and of which they say that allowing family models other than the ultra-traditionalist one is the cause of all the ills of society. This has very profound implications, since they consider that the only acceptable model is a family where it is man-woman, with traditional roles of provider and nurturer. The ideology of the UD says that everything different is immoral, and even maintains that it is a sin. What type of social organization does this imply? One where women leave all the public and power spaces that have cost them so much to conquer, since the UD only conceive that their role is to procreate, raise and do household chores. Not for nothing is the trend of influencers Trad wives (traditional wives) is so popular with this demographic, and its greatest exponents in Mexico have said so. Recently, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, in his own documentary, said that he considered it an “agandalle” that women had achieved 50 percent representation. But it also means that the entire LGBT+ community goes backwards in the recognition of their rights. Curiously, the model that they long for, the one where a single income could support a family, has only been possible under the welfare state. With pro-worker policies, and with a strong presence of the State in the economy. As soon as neoliberalism was implemented in societies, they destroyed any possibility of a household being sustained on a single income. Working women, the LGBT community, single mothers and fathers, divorced people, are the enemy of the traditional PAN “family.” That is the model they defend and it is theirs who will defend it.
Finally, freedom. According to the UD, everything must be based on the individual, it is the founding block of everything. Leaving aside the enormous cognitive dissonance of defending the country and the family (both a set of social organization), and then wanting to defend the individual at all costs; The freedom they defend is that which benefits only the leaders of their movement. They understand government presence as the main restriction on freedom and demand that it be reduced to its minimum expression, that is, security and “rule of law”, everything else must be privatized. Only in this way will they achieve freedom. This has direct consequences on the freedom of everyone, but contrary to what they preach, the freedom of 99.99 percent of citizens is reduced. What percentage of the population would not even have access to food if there were no social programs, or what percentage would be below the poverty line? We know it, just look at the data from neoliberal governments, where they had 70 percent of the population under that condition. What would access to education, health, water, etc. be like if everything were privatized? Surprise, we know: in all the countries where they did it, access decreased, while companies had record profits. The freedom of people to have access to these services was subordinated to the freedom of businesses to extract exorbitant rents.
That is the freedom they defend, the freedom to pay poverty wages, the freedom to evade taxes, the freedom to extract exorbitant rents and the freedom to enslave the entire population, in order to increase their profits. And what do they want from the State? Simple, that it is there to crush any dissidence, any movement that demands better rights, a better quality of life, a more equitable distribution of wealth; They know that as the rule of law, that nothing ever changes, that the premises of exploitation and misery with which they began their investments are maintained forever, so that their rate of return does not affect. That is the project of PANism, let’s not get confused, it is an elitist, racist and extremely exploitative project.
* Master in finance in the energy sector from the University of Edinburgh. Specialist in energy issues
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