Democracy faces attacks
Blanca Heredia, professor-researcher at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), considered that at a global level, democracy is suffering attacks in three of its pillars: free elections, the Judiciary and a free press, and that is also happening in Mexico.
“In the Mexican case, there is a set of dents in those three fundamental pillars. Where so far I see fewer dents in the concrete operation is in the part of free elections, but it is at risk given the reform that the president and his government are promoting, ”he stressed.
On the second pillar, he considered that it has withstood the attacks of a government that has made the country grind by touching the constitutional limits. An example of this, he said, was the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) to declare unconstitutional the informal pretrial detention for tax crimes.
“It is not because I am in favor of tax evasion, but because it is obviously the main instrument of the government against the opposition. Individually, because that is how the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador works, it works by intimidating individuals, not collectively, so the Court deprived it of a fundamental mechanism from each to 24 ”, he highlighted.
In the case of the free press, he said that it has been possible to resist, but at a high cost due to the number of journalists who have lost their lives.
Carlos Bravo Regidor, teacher and doctor in History at the University of Chicago and columnist for Political Expansionconsidered that the triumph of Andrés Manuel López Obrador was more a change in the party system than a change of regime.
“The collapse of the party system of the transition to which the vote for the PRI, for the PAN, collapsed like never before and perhaps forever, it is not that these parties have disappeared, it is rather that they were, especially the PRD and the PRI, devoured by the lopezobradorismo, and from then on that symptom has become more evident, manifesting itself as a decelerated process of deinstitutionalization, the political conflict”, he said.
Bravo Regidor considered that in recent years, Mexico has gone through a process of democratic involution, because although there are still parties, it is no longer a party system itself.
