The anecdote is attributed to Ruiz Cortines. One comrade, one of those who usually hold politicians, told her that he would be governor. The President agreed that this should not be the case and did his best to appoint another candidate. Luego mentioned to his companion in the palace and broke the news to her: “What do you think, compadre, nos la ganaron”. So many politicians have used the phrase “we have lost our comrade” that no one would know how to attribute this political practice of winning by losing to them.
In these heights of the party, it is not at all clear that electoral reform wants a president. He nominated Pablo Gómez to head the Presidential Reform Commission, rather to protect him from the Financial Intelligence Unit and to amuse him on a topic entrusted to him without embargo by the same López Obrador, until now Claudia Sheinbaum has not accepted Gómez’s proposals, which are, to nadie same extra-ña, the former ones.
The PT and the Greens are again giving further signals that they will not accompany the reform, which no one has seen, but which the hardliners from Morena claim to support: Bajar 100 plurinominales, reduction of funding for parties, contraction of the structure of the INE and local organisms. The few signals the president has given are more toward a reform of not electing multi-nominees on the ticket until, in some states, a tried-and-true mechanism known as repechage, which says multi-nominees will be the losers who get the highest order of votes in your precinct and are not on the party leader’s list. They will also seek to eliminate multi-member parliamentarians in the Senate, which makes perfect sense, but the Greens and PT will not like them at all. Substantial cuts to party subsidies will be difficult, especially at a time when organized crime is hitting its limits in electoral processes, so it is very likely that reform requires greater control and efficiency of gas taxation. Many people suggested including mandatory voting, a mechanism to prevent vote buying or control. The main opponents of this proposal are the same moraines.
Restoring inversion and growth is the president’s obsession today, and as it is, if we don’t restore this growth in the same year, the social project of the 4T brand will be more threatened. Electoral reform that aligns with a campaign promise while being seen as a defeat for Morena’s hard men, as happened with the 40 hours reform, would be a good signal for markets and inversionists.
Will he encourage the president to use “perdimos compadre” on Pablo Gómez and end it on López Obrador?
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