Zedillo: Mexico does not need a leader hidden in the office attached to the Presidency

Zedillo participated in the Economic Outlook Seminar 2025, at ITAM, where he gave the keynote lecture “Challenges and Dilemmas in the New Geopolitics: Uncertainty and Unpublished Risks”.

The former president warned that the reforms that have been “transformation of democracy into tyranny” came at the worst moment for the country, when it will have to face the return of “colonialist and imperialist” forces represented by President-elect Donald Trump.

But it will do so without a solid rule of law, without democracy and without unity and without this “it will be very difficult for us to overcome the economic and political challenges” to come.

“In the face of storms that we can see on the horizon, that all of this takes us into this condition that is very unfortunate. It is very unfortunate and greatly increases the probability that this international storm will become a true tragedy for our country,” he explained.

That is why he proposed to President Sheinbaum to “convince” her Morena party and the other political forces to approve two transitional articles in the Constitution.

The first would be to “leave pending, delay, to postpone the entry into force of what has been done since September” and give space to the deliberation of the Judicial Reform so that it does not obey “the objective of building a tyranny in our country.” ”.

This is because, he assured, this Judicial Reform “destroys the professionalism and independence of the Judicial Branch,” and as it was endorsed “it will simply be a servant of the Executive Branch and the party in power.”

That act “would give us national unity” to face the scenario to come, he said.

The second transitional that he asked to approve is one to nullify “that barbarity called the revocation of mandate, an article that has been left in the Constitution (which) has no justification in our country, so suspend what has been done to destroy democracy and completely abolish this figure of revocation of mandate.”

“What we need is a president who governs with a lot of authority, with a lot of power, a democratic country with the rules of democracy, that is what we need,” he insisted.