There are 36 million votes, which represent 55% of the people who voted, or 36% of the possible voters or 26% of the total population, the justification for the legislative abuses that have been approved. Lacking legislative technique, absent arguments, but yes, with unusual haste, harmful reforms have been implemented for the country, whose harmful consequences will begin to be felt immediately and will have important impacts in the medium term.
It took the country several decades to build a robust legal framework that guarantees human rights, that imposes authentic limits on excesses in power, especially presidential power, that has solid institutions that uphold the Constitution and guarantee human rights, a floor minimum of certainty, legality and stability. Of course we still did not have the desired result, especially at the time of its execution, but along the way we had been forging it to continue moving towards a constitutional democracy with a broad exercise of rights, healthy and clear limits to the exercise of power.
As Timothy Snyder points out in his book “On Tyranny”, the error consists in presupposing that rulers who have accessed power through institutions cannot modify or destroy those same institutions. He goes on to point out: sometimes revolutionaries do intend to destroy all institutions simultaneously.
It has been this legislative majority, its leaders and multiple accomplices who in seven weeks have made sure to destroy that path and return to the times when the law was the will of the boss. In this maelstrom, it is sad to see how those who previously, from the opposition, institutions or academia, defended with conviction that path towards democracy and the exercise of rights; Today they are unconditional accomplices and facilitators of the abuses of the majority, all in exchange for the approval and complacency of those in power.
Faced with the tyranny of the majority, justified by 36 million votes, the message being sent is clear: we are going for absolute power without obstacles. The dialogue and arguments are stupid, what rules is the whim of their will. And as long as this majority does not change, we will hardly see any other behavior. Snyder himself explains it: a party emboldened by a favorable electoral result, or motivated by ideology, or both, could change the system from within. In this case not for the better.
