Breathe
By Marilú Acosta
It is essential to understand the importance of the processes, to respect the agreements, to carry out inclusive activities and above all to stop thinking that we live in the 70's. On July 4, 1976, only José López Portillo y Pacheco (Mexico City, 1920-2004) was on the ballot for president for the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party), the PPS (Popular Socialist Party) and the PARM (Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution). The PAN (National Action Party) did not nominate anyone because its candidate did not reach 80% of the internal vote within the party. Neither the PCM (Mexican Communist Party), nor the PF (women's party) were registered, so their candidates were not recognized. Was it a simulation? Of course... no. It was a democratic exercise where the population could choose the party, which resulted in plurinominal deputations.
Adolfo López Mateos (State of Mexico, 1909-1969), during his presidency proposed to create party deputies in 1963 (today known as plurinominal). All it took was a crossed ballot in José López Portillo y Pacheco to make him president, the process was respected. People went to vote and there were plurinominal deputies.
The Frente Amplio por México ( FAxM) was created within a very different context than in 1975-1976. The FAxM is outside party agreements and political leaderships, because it focuses on the citizenry, because democracy is that: demos (people), κράτος(krátos = government). In the FAxM, steps, times, processes and above all transparency in the registration of candidates, of surveys, of analysis, of dialogues, of registrations and finally of a face-to-face vote on September 3, 2023 were agreed upon. Measuring the water to the sweet potatoes (surveys) must be part of the democratic exercise. However, hot or cold water should not be a reason to take the sweet potatoes out of the water. No Alito, it is not up to you to decide who is the FAxM candidate. You are not the magnanimous one who recognizes the citizen acceptance of Xóchitl Gálvez. You are not the one who should go out and give the news. It is not your voice that represents the voice of the citizenship. It is not your image nor your energetic (authoritarian) finger that points to the future candidate to the Presidency of the Republic. It does not correspond to you. Not like that. You have usurped a place, a moment and a speech that was never yours.
Alito, or rather Alejandro, to speak among adults, processes are respected and even if you think you are being empathetic, democratic and respectful with your partner Beatriz Paredes, you have performed a macho act of "I have to go out and explain to them how united and disciplined we are in my party". That is mansplainning. Not even Porfirio Muñoz Ledo y Lazo de la Vega (Mexico City, 1933-2023), who was president of the PRI from September 1975 to November 1976, dared to do so.
No Alejandro, it is not up to you to decide when FAxM agreements are broken. It is not up to you to explain how the polls work. It is not up to you to speak for Beatriz, nor for Xóchitl, nor for any woman. We don't need you as spokesperson. We don't need any man as spokesperson. We have a voice. Our own voice. Do you think you help us by speaking as you did? Do you think you represent all of us? You are never going to represent neither the citizenry, nor the women. You are a party president, you are part of the political class and you have the gender that has turned the world upside down.
Thank you, but you look prettier when you keep quiet. Don't be a flower vase either, don't decorate the political sphere with your gallantry, it's not the Law of Talion. Learn your place and work from there. Of course political parties are needed, because that is the way politics is structured in Mexico. Maybe not later, maybe later it will be easy for citizens to have positions in the executive, legislative and judicial branches. For now, as president of a party, of a party that built Mexico in the 20th century and that both are crumbling in the 21st century, you need to understand that Mexico has already changed and that it is not up to you to decide, nor to impose.
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