Owners of what

The vaunted “plan B” of electoral reform has turned out to be a disaster. It came as a warning from power, to try to settle what was unacceptable in the constitutional reform. In 16 hours, nearly 300 pages, with reforms to 6 laws on the matter and modifications to nearly 200 articles, were read, all legislative procedures were waived -putting their legal validity at risk- and approved by the majority of Morena and its allies: the PT and the Green Ecologist. The reading and analysis capacity of these deputies is incredible, and they also gave small parties the possibility of using remnants of public resources for electoral times and the transfer of votes if any of them did not achieve the minimum 3% of the vote. to keep your record.

With this, the president tries to slap the table to try to impose his will and shows the abject position of the Morena deputies with their leader. In any congress in the world, the action would have been criticized and the deputies subjected to public repudiation for the lack of professionalism and seriousness in a matter of that importance.

In addition, with the legal reforms, they suppressed the elementary prohibition that the government or its members could campaign in favor of themselves or of the government candidate at electoral times, which is expressly prohibited in article 134 of the Constitution, that is, from September when it begins. the process until the day of the election in June 2024. In addition, they reduced campaign times and cut areas of its administration from the INE and kicked out the executive secretary of the INE, who is elected by the councilors, not by congress .

The reduction in campaign times and the elimination of penalties for officials who campaign is perhaps the most tricky part of the proposal. For practical purposes, they let the bottle caps, as they have done for a few weeks, continue in the pre-campaign and the rest of the possible presidential contenders have their time shortened to confront the electorate. As the classic would say, and what flavor do you want your snow? This measure violates the basic principle of fairness in the contest and completely subverts what has been achieved in recent years of having a level floor for everyone in an election.

Another element of significant concern is the transfer of votes. Not only because what the small parties did to vote in favor of his reform was to ensure their permanence, but these parties and Morena consider that the votes belong to them. In other words, those who vote for one party or another, in the end, said parties are the owners of the electorate’s votes and can make use of them as if they were their own patrimony. That is what is called here and around the world electoral fraud to political representation.

This is where the main problem lies. AMLO acts, like his co-religionists, as if the votes that brought them to power belonged to them, as if through the vote they embodied a kind of ownership of the national project that they uphold and with this they had the right to impose what they wanted. their own judgment they consider should be the national project, the organization of the economy, health and for practical purposes, the electoral life of the country.

In the Senate they have already found, to this day, 70 necessary corrections so that the draft sent by the Chamber of Deputies is not unconstitutional, because what if they are not owners and cannot be, is the constitutional text and what is required to all. Nothing more, but nothing less too.