When the performance of the current government is measured, even the most loyal followers have their doubts about the results.
And when power seeks to highlight President Claudia Sheinbaum’s popularity with polls, what does her least favor is when former President López Obrador comes out right then to say that he can control the Army, the opposition and even the United States.
The economic achievements that the regime boasts are not its own. The increase in the minimum wage is paid by smaller companies and many are forced into informality due to the excessive burden of labor costs.
The appreciation of the exchange rate is a side effect of the decisions of the Federal Reserve and expectations of the monetary and financial future of the United States and not the result of an outstanding economic policy.
And remittances, whose diffusion has moderated due to recent declines, are a consequence of the historical expulsion of millions of Mexicans who did not find the economic and security conditions in their own country.
The consultations that should matter for public policy decision-making should be, for example, the Business Confidence Indicator prepared by Inegi and which in its most recent measurement was located in the pessimistic terrain below 50 points, at 48.6 points.
What the regime should address is the serious and prolonged depression in which the construction sector finds itself and how the survey among its participants, which is also measured by Inegi, places that level at 45.8 points.
The IPADE Business Expectations survey reports that 80% of the owners and senior managers of the companies consulted consider that the reform of the Judicial Branch will have negative effects on the economy.
But what official propagandists like are the presidential popularity polls that they try to manufacture and disseminate. Above all, because they maintain high levels of acceptance, around 70% among those surveyed.
But in the small print of those same open measurements is the devil of the details: 80% of citizens who disapprove of the work of this government in the fight against corruption and organized crime.
And when the President makes efforts and pressures to fill the Zócalo this coming Sunday, former President López Obrador appears to say that he does not want to overshadow his successor, a statement that hangs between ego and warning.
Because what it does do is threaten to return to the streets if the Army threatens a coup d’état, because only the armed forces carry out coups d’état; If the opposition grows, that is called an attack against democracy; or if Trump seeks to arrest those he filled with hugs, without bullets during his government.
It is an act of enormous pressure and injustice with the President who has to manage the inherited disaster and without much room for maneuver in the guidelines left to her by the one who now offers to save her mandate.
When the President makes efforts and pressures to fill the Zócalo this coming Sunday, former President López Obrador appears to say that he does not want to overshadow his successor, a statement that hangs between ego and warning.
