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Inally the expected happened. But before there was incessant, controversial and precise work. Nothing that happened has arisen by spontaneous generation or by the indelicate traffic of chance. The important thing is that now we Mexicans have in view what attracts, rejects or suits each other.
Politics has crystallized two fruits of its fruitful work. We have them face to face and anyone will be able to choose the one of his preference, the one of his interests and the one of his hopes. On the one hand we have the popular model, supported by the brown and led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In the opposite corner stands the opponent, marked and conservative, now with the support of the hundreds of thousands of supporters recently shown in full sun (13N). This model has not yet been purified, but its features have been delineated in tandem between the past and everything that contradicts the official redistributive and righteous desire.
The champions of conservatism are also quite well known from the stands. Some of them are political – the least – and still unclear. Those who have most influenced the definitions, applauded by the citizen arena, are those who move freely among the media and it can be said that they saturate them. They form a seasoned group of prominent and daily opinion-makers on everything that concerns the organized life of the country. But, in the main, they touch and retouch what the President says, does, denies, combats or suggests. They are the famous intellectuals of times that float among the glories of a past where they roamed freely; and the current times that, although they have been less favorable and complicated to grasp and understand, have not shrunk. On the contrary, they are increasingly ready for the coming battle. Having marched outdoors in the street invigorated them.
The outstanding fact of 13N is, precisely, having placed, face to face, the options that will be voted for in the next elections. I say close because the two governorships at stake – Edomex and Coahuila – will also be fields of confrontation and serious dispute. In these elections and those of the end and beginning that follows, the dilemma that will be in view is already formulated. On the official side, the necessary continuity of the transforming effort centered on care for the poor and abandoned regions is stated with crystal clarity.
It is about achieving a territorial balance that manages to match distances to improve opportunities. But it is also about following up on the determined effort to attend to those who require such care. The enormous amounts of resources invested so far require redoubled work and guaranteed priority. It has managed to temper inequalities (Inegi) that have been even grotesque and terribly unfair. It is true that by not allocating attention and means to others in a better position, as was done in the past, this improvement was now achieved. It is well known that many thousands of Mexicans remained who did not manage to get out of poverty. The effects of the pandemic largely prevented it. A better channeling of the millionaire support for settling down will be part of the pending task. The rest will take root in the next six-year term where the central power is intended to be obtained for the brown.
In the opposition contingent, the prevailing profile is markedly conservative. The marchers and their companions on this trip to the future do not accept having been displaced from the official gaze. They resent the treatment received in their own flesh. Never, since the Revolution that passed them by, had they received second-hand treatment. And this feeling was manifested, clearly, in his massive march. The pretext of defending the National Electoral Institute simply acted as a temporary spur. The presidential words put enough acid to remove their courage, already embedded in collective flesh and transmuted into frank hatred. We must add the acute fears, inherited from times of the cold War suffered by a large part of the middle classes. This emulsion achieved the coalition that its promoters were waiting for to prove that they can be a powerful base of electoral support. And that is where all his predictions of a successful, triumphant and legitimizing future are now concentrated.
Requesting, from the Presidency, to go out and march, in a festive attitude, is not exhausted by being in this face to face. It is desired to testify the adhesions to the model that privileges the well-being of those who, or have not received what they deserve or, what has been achieved is not enough for them. Both a street march (13N) and the one that will take place on 27N will have the legitimacy that they themselves will have to claim.
