When the President of the Republic threateningly exhibited the supposed earnings of the journalist Carlos Loret de Mola, as a reaction to the publication of a report that revealed the comfortable life of his eldest son abroad, and a probable conflict of interest with the parastatal Pemex involved, his conduct was offensive in political terms, he crossed the threshold of legality to act openly in an unlawful manner.
The publication of the report by Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) and Latinus, on the Gray House of the family of José Ramón López Beltrán, marks a before and after in presidential action.
It would seem that the resident of the National Palace matured his belligerent and transgressive strategy over several months, when he publicly and unofficially confronted previous corruption scandals involving his brothers Pío and Martín López Obrador, officials of the greatest closeness such as his private secretary, and officials in charge of strategic areas of the government, as well as the general directors of the most important state companies, namely Pemex and the CFE.
These facts, particularly the Gray House in Houston where his eldest son and campaign strategist lived, show that the message of austerity staged with the refusal to live in Los Pinos, park the presidential plane or travel in an austere sedan, is no longer based on the facts.
The pestilential aroma of corruption is so evident and the signs of conflict of interest are so clear, that in any democratic regime an independent investigation would already be carried out to clarify the probable crimes committed in the environment of power.
The speech of extreme austerity proclaimed as a quasi-religious slogan by the president, and which he has tried to impose as a dogma on society, contradicts the abundance suspected by its origin and secrecy that is enjoyed in the family environment of the President.
In light of the facts, the so-called republican austerity is a precept for ordinary citizens, but inapplicable in the vicinity of the President. The sons, brothers, and intimate collaborators do not have to suffer the norms of mediocrity that are preached by the Chief Executive.
Now we know that a society of new untouchables and privileged in the political class is maturing in the very nest of the workshop.
The president’s anger, discovered in the fallacy of his speech of austerity and integrity, has made him transgress the rule of law.
Never before has a President of the Republic carried out a criminal violation of the law, when in a public, repeated, direct, personal manner and dressed in the presidential investiture, he exhibits fiscal information, reserved, with the sole purpose of discrediting a communicator.
The seriousness of this act, in democratic terms, means the breaking of the Rule of Law by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador himself, and his first frank steps, along the path of authoritarianism.
In contrast to the emerging absolutism of the National Palace tenant, the journalistic revelations about the inconsistency of reality with the moral precepts of the president, added to the ultra-authoritarian reaction of the Executive, have led from indignation to a true citizen awakening.
