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President López Obrador He summoned his voters to the march that he will lead on November 27. Those voters are from the people, those from below. We will see them go. He should have made this call because the block, still fragile, of the political elite, is against his electoral reform proposal. The central demand of this block was summarized with the phrase: The INE is not touched.
We heard the cry of such a demand as a slogan, in the march on November 13 (13N), uttered by the bloc of the political elite, extremely irritated and convinced of their slogan. It was hard to believe that someone could have the audacity to brandish such an incredible and brittle claim. The firmness with which it was said and shouted, the conviction that it should be obvious to everyone that the INE is untouchable, clearly shows that this elite believes that only they know what democracy is, and only they have the right to propose and to reform the Political Constitution and the laws of the Republic.
At best it is nonsense. The democratic and legally constituted government represents the majority like no other. It has no advantage in Congress to reform the Constitution, but the laws do. Therefore, it will make the reform possible, even if it is insufficient to improve the institutional representation of all, not only that of the political elite, which will continue to be part of all and, at the same time, the social segment of privilege.
The reforms for the formation of the current INE were the result of negotiations between the parties that resurfaced from the neoliberal context that prevailed: PRI, PAN, PRD and the Green Party. Then MC would join. All were (are) favorable to the neoliberal State, as proved by the so-called Pact for Mexico of the disastrous Peña Nieto. Mexico
It meant, for that pact, a political elite without a people. AMLO’s proposal has among its purposes, to truly citizenize the electoral advisers, including the people, through their election by all citizens. It is a very small reform, but it is possible. We will have a better law than the existing one. Perhaps in the future it will be possible to continue improving the laws for a more representative democracy.
The noise made by the elitist bloc in its march, and the enormous space that the opposition to the reform occupied and continues to occupy in the traditional media, shows the size of the exclusion of the interests of those from below, their virtual non-existence in that area owned by the bloc of the political-economic elite. How far is still necessary to go so that media such as community radio stations continue to multiply; the problems of the life of those below must reach other media with the necessary sufficiency to represent their greatest number.
It is surprising that a minor reform for the lives of the majority has generated such irritation among the elite. Neither that, nor any other legal reform, nor public policies, have touched the most precious interests of the elite. The balance of government activity has tilted slightly towards the people, fulfilling the purpose of the 4T that for the good of all, first the poor.
The proposed reform, moreover, will cost less to voters, thus displacing some more resources towards those who have always been excluded. In addition, we will have a superior method with the gradual implementation of electronic ballot boxes. It is these obvious improvements that the elite are rabidly opposed to. This opposition takes on its most crude sense when the images of the senseless march are placed in the context of the concrete movement of a capitalist society: the privileges of the elite that protest and march come from those below: that is the background that the elites defend. angry from above.
Due to his obtuse nature, the opposition to the reform is very well represented by the High Void, Vicente Fox. All in one with this pathetic character of the arrogant elite. Due to its aberrational sense, the opposition is well represented by the poor, tacky and coarse middle-class lady, who addressed the President calling him Indian of Macuspana cracked leg
: racist by adopting the values of white supremacism typical of the ruling elite; there were not a few marchers from this social segment; middle class who understand nothing about what exists and what is proposed, but who hate AMLO. Agustín Carstens well represents that elite gorged with the goods they did not produce, but who despises those who produce them. He joined the defense of the INE
the ragged-minded little actor Eduardo Verástegui, head of the torqued Mexican extreme right.
A dealer from 13N, there was also the blue-blooded panista prosopopeic Creel Miranda; the unspeakable alito and his self-celebrated corruption; the Zambrano and Ortega of the PRD happy to be pulled by the elitist train that is throwing some leftovers. Businessmen and dolled up ladies. The elitist hate march was successful. The privileges were defended tooth and nail.
