Breathe
By Adela Navarro Bello
Two street rats are mounted on American denomination bills, while appearing to confront each other by standing on two legs and, with their upper limbs, alerting to the start of a knocking sound. The rat on the right is inscribed with the name Adam, the one on the left with the surname Monreal.
Another of the memes that flooded the social networks after the public clash between the coordinators of the Morenista benches in the Senate, Adán Augusto López Hernández, and in the Chamber of Deputies, Ricardo Monreal Ávila, is an image in two presentations, and in both appears the former Secretary of the Interior, López Hernández. In the first one he seems to be reflecting and the text added is "Well, I did steal", while in the second one, a little more visible the rest of his body, they added another text: "But Monreal stole more".
The two men who tried to become Morena's candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, but were defeated by Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the current national leader, have never been part of the same group, but it is assumed that they collaborated for a single project, that of their party and its permanence in the National Palace, with the respective and overwhelming majorities in the Legislative Power.
Monreal, from Zacatecas, and López, from Tabasco, both were members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party when that party governed the majority of the country, from which they migrated to the now defunct Party of the Democratic Revolution, and in 2014 they joined their moral leader in the founding of the National Regeneration Movement, which would eventually become the Morena party.
They grew up, then, as politicians, in a regime as corrupt as the PRI, and when they were marginalized from power in the tricolor, they ran in search of candidacies and positions in the newly formed PRD, which they abandoned to help its leader to found Morena, and from his hand they became the powerful legislators they are today, developing in a government and legislative system that has not changed in substance or form, that keeps open the roads for corruption, which have been traveled by PRI members, PAN members and now by them in their capacity as Morenistas.They may change their acronyms, but not their habits.
The disagreement between the leaders of the Morenista benches, López and Monreal, is not over ideological issues, candidacies, positions for the team of one or the other, or disagreements over legislative ideas or reforms on the horizon. The clash was over the only thing they can fight about: money. For public resources that they manage at will as leaders of the majority benches.
Away from the "republican austerity" that his moral leader manages, but which has been reduced to a mere phrase without meaning or weight, Adán Augusto López was so upset with a reduction of 123 million pesos to the budget of the Senate of the Republic, that immediately, losing his temper, the institutionalism and the adjustments that the Presidency promotes to cut budgets, he lashed out against Ricardo Monreal, the leader of the Morenista bench in the Chamber of Deputies, whom he literally pointed out as corrupt. He claimed that he had discovered corrupt contracts for 150 million pesos in two areas of the Senate administration (whose head in the last Legislature was Monreal), for the management of the Historical Archive of the legislative documents of the Upper House, and for the maintenance of the elevators which, he accused, do not even work.
Angry, he not only blamed Monreal for a bad administration, but also for committing acts of corruption, which, he said, would be duly and formally denounced before three instances: Attorney General's Office, Superior Audit Office of the Federation and Ministry of Public Administration.
As in his Morenista and PRI days, any accusation slips into Monreal's shell of impunity and he made a video in which, with the voice of an evangelist, he defends himself without fuss and subtly accuses an unjustified friendly fire, given that, he informed, there was no such cut, but a 3 percent increase in the budget of the Senate of the Republic.
The days that followed were of back and forth, of a President marginalized from Morena's corrupt narrative, urging the parties to overcome the "misunderstandings", thus minimizing the allegations of corruption in the Senate of the Republic that reach, as far as is known and due to the momentary anger of Adán Augusto López, 150 million pesos.
After meetings with other national political figures and even with the Secretary of the Interior, who beyond her functions is acting as a referee in the Legislative Branch when her jurisdiction is in the Executive Branch, and in the worst case, settling matters of a party, Morena, which should have a healthy distance from the central government, to which she belongs.
Very few in the opposition took the issue to the political ring: Senator Lilly Tellez and Senator Ricardo Anaya, the former with her characteristic tirade of diatribe in the Tribune of the Upper House, and the latter without much echo, given his own background and suspicions of corruption when his party, PAN, was in power, or when they managed a certain numerical level in the Chamber of Deputies and could negotiate the votes with the Presidency of the Republic.
Nothing is known about the denunciations that Adán Augusto promised to present, the Morenistas have shaken hands and corruption is safe from being confirmed with a ministerial and judicial investigation. Once the anger of the leaders of the Morena benches has passed, there is no more talk of deviations, overpricing, favoritism, abuse of power, bribery, corruption.
At this point, the acts of corruption denounced within Morena have remained a meme and have not ended in an investigation with the full force of the law to comply with two of the maxims of its moral leader: to sweep corruption from top to bottom, and to imprison the corrupt to set a precedent.
As for the rest, I wish Adán Augusto would have been so angry when he found out about the cuts to Education, Culture, Health, Security, for more, much more than 123 million pesos, which meant the Morenista discord.
It is obviously fine to tighten the belt on other people's budgets that directly benefit the citizens, but not when it comes to the money with which the legislative political class maintains its excesses, taking advantage of its power... which also remains a meme.
The opinions expressed are the responsibility of the authors and are absolutely independent of the position and editorial line of the company. Opinion 51.
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